Colostethus
Colostethus is a group of poison dart frogs. They live in Central and South America, from Panama to Colombia, to Ecuador, to northern Peru. People call them rocket frogs in English,[1] but frogs not in Colostethus have this name too.[2]
| Colostethus | |
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| Colostethus pratti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Genus: | Colostethus Cope, 1866 |
| Diversity | |
| 12 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Groups
In 2006, scientists said they had put too many species in Colostethus, 138. They looked at the genuses again and learned that many of these frogs were not alike enough to be in the same genus.[3] They put some of these frogs in Aromobatidae (e..g., Anomaloglossus) and others to Hyloxalus and Silverstoneia.[3] Some scientists think that some of the frogs in Colostethus should be in Ameerega instead.[1]
Bodies
The skin of the frog's back is brown in color. There are bumps near the rear end. The frogs have light colored stripes. Adult male frogs' third front toes are big.[3]
Species
There are 12 species in this genus:[1]
- Colostethus agilis Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1985
- Colostethus furviventris Rivero and 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 and Goin, 1964)
- Colostethus panamansis (Dunn, 1933)
- Colostethus pratti (Boulenger, 1899)
- Colostethus thorntoni (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
- Colostethus ucumari Grant, 2007
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Colostethus Cope, 1866". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Grant, T.; Frost, D. R.; Caldwell, J. P.; Gagliardo, R.; Haddad, C. F. B.; Kok, P. J. R.; Means, D. B.; Noonan, B. P.; Schargel, W. E. & Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 82263880.
External links
Media related to Colostethus at Wikimedia Commons