Ranitomeya

Ranitomeya
R. ventrimaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Subfamily: Dendrobatinae
Genus: Ranitomeya
Diversity
16 species (see text)

Ranitomeya is a genus of dart poison frogs found in Panama and South America south to Peru and Brazil, possibly into Bolivia.[1]

Taxonomy

In 2006 Grant et al. revised the systematics of dart poison frogs and placed many species formerly classified in the genus Dendrobates, Minyobates and Phyllobates in Ranitomeya.[2] In 2011 Brown et al. following other scientists, who assumed the existence of two distinct clades in Ranitomeya, erected the genus Andinobates for 12 species of Ranitomeya.[3]

Ranitomeya and Andinobates frogs can be distinguished from those in genera such as Dendrobates in that they are generally smaller, have more than two colors, and seem to glitter if viewed from certain angles. Ranitomeya is widespread in the Amazon basin, whereas Andinobates species are found only in the northern Andes down to Central America.

Species

There are 16 Ranitomeya species:[1][4]

  • Ranitomeya amazonica (Schulte, 1999)
  • Ranitomeya benedicta Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008
  • Ranitomeya cyanovittata Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010
  • Ranitomeya defleri Twomey and Brown, 2009
  • Ranitomeya fantastica (Boulenger, 1884)
  • Ranitomeya flavovittata (Schulte, 1999)
  • Ranitomeya imitator (Schulte, 1986)
  • Ranitomeya reticulata (Boulenger, 1884)
  • Ranitomeya sirensis (Aichinger, 1991)
  • Ranitomeya summersi Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008
  • Ranitomeya toraro Brown, Caldwell, Twomey, Melo-Sampaio, and Souza, 2011
  • Ranitomeya uakarii (Brown, Schulte, and Summers, 2006)
  • Ranitomeya vanzolinii (Myers, 1982)
  • Ranitomeya variabilis (Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988)
  • Ranitomeya ventrimaculata (Shreve, 1935)
  • Ranitomeya yavaricola Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010

Dendrobates rubrocephalus Schulte, 1999 is placed here Incertae Sedis.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Ranitomeya Bauer, 1986". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Grant, T., D. R. Frost, J. P. Caldwell, R. Gagliardo, C. F. B. Haddad, P. J. R. Kok, D. B. Means, B. P. Noonan, W. E. Schargel, and W. C. Wheeler (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1-262
  3. ↑ Brown, J.L., et al. (2011). A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae). Zootaxa 3083: 1-120
  4. ↑ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
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