Colostethus
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Colostethus is a genus from the family of the poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae)native to southern Central and northwestern South America.
Features and way of life
Colostethus species are small to medium-sized frogs with a body length of mostly 14 to 27 millimeters, with the largest species up to 38 millimeters. Their basic color is brown and they usually have lighter stripes on the side and / or side of the back. The fingers and toes have relatively small discs and no webbed feet. Teeth sit from the upper jaw, but not on the ploughshare .
The species are diurnal and live on the forest floor or near the banks of bodies of water at heights of up to 4000 meters.
Systematics
More than a hundred species were previously ascribed to the genus, but more recent molecular biological studies have shown that this broad genus is polyphyletic .
After revisions of the systematics of the dendrobatids, only 15 species are currently listed under this genus:
As of April 5, 2019
- Colostethus agilis Lynch & Ruiz-Carranza, 1985
- Colostethus alacris Rivero & Granados-Díaz, 1990
- Colostethus brachistriatus Rivero & Serna, 1986
- Colostethus dysprosium Rivero & Serna, 2000
- Colostethus furviventris Rivero & Serna, 1991
- Colostethus imbricolus Silverstone, 1975
- Colostethus inguinalis (Cope, 1868)
- Colostethus jacobuspetersi Rivero, 1991
- Colostethus latinasus (Cope, 1863)
- Colostethus lynchi Grant, 1998
- Colostethus mertensi (Cochran & Goin, 1964)
- Colostethus panamensis (Dunn, 1933)
- Colostethus pratti (Boulenger, 1899)
- Colostethus thorntoni (Cochran & Goin, 1970)
- Colostethus ucumari Grant, 2007
- Colostethus yaguara Rivero & Serna, 1991
Colostethus ruthveni Kaplan, 1997 was separated from the group, the exact systematic position of this species within the subfamily Dendrobatinae is unknown.
- Colostethus fraterdanieli Silverstone, 1971 came into the genus Leucostethus as Leucostethus fraterdanieli in 2018
- Colostethus fugax Morales & Schulte, 1993 has also been in the genus Leucostethus since 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jay Mathers Savage: The amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: a herpetofauna between two continents, between two seas . University of Chicago Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-226-73537-5 , pp. 377 .
- ↑ Miguel Vences, Joachim Kosuch, Renaud Boistel, Célio FB Haddad, Enrique La Marca, Stefan Lötters, Michael Veith: Convergent evolution of aposematic coloration in Neotropical poison frogs: a molecular phylogenetic perspective . In: Organisms, diversity and evolution . tape 3 , 2003, p. 215-226 .
- ↑ T. Grant, DR Frost, JP Caldwell, R. Gagliardo, CFB Haddad, PJR Kok, DB Means, BP Noonan, WE Schargel & WC Wheeler (2006): Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura : Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299, p. 165 PDF online
- ↑ Taran Grant, Marco Rada, Marvin Anganoy-Criollo, Abel Batista, Pedro Henrique Dias, Adriana Moriguchi Jeckel, Denis Jacob Machado, José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid: Phylogenetic Systematics of Dart-Poison Frogs and Their Relatives Revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea).
- ↑ CM Marín-Castaño, C. Molina-Zuluaga & A. Restrepo: A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the eastern versant of the Central Cordillera of Colombia and the phylogenetic status of Colostethus fraterdanieli. Zootaxa, 4461, pp. 359-380, 2018
- ↑ Grant, T., M. Rada, MA Anganoy-Criollo, A. Batista, PH dos S. Dias, AM Jeckel, DJ Machado & JV Rueda-Almonacid: Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea). South American Journal of Herpetology, 12 (Special Issue), pp. 1-9, 2017.
