Ranitomeya

Ranitomeya amazonica

The genus Ranitomeya belongs to the family of poison dart frogs, which are often called poison dart frogs. It is native to South America in the Amazon Basin. The species formerly belonging to the genus Dendrobates, but they were at one of Grant et al. spun off in 2006 carried out the revision of the classification of poison dart frogs. However, it was soon discovered that the new genus was divided into two biogeographically and morphologically distinct species groups. As molecular genetic data confirmed this subdivision, built Brown et al. in 2011 for twelve species of the genus Ranitomeya a new genus Andinobates.

Features

The genus comprises Ranitomeya very small frogs that are different from the larger Dendrobates species mainly by its color. The species of the genus Ranitomeya always have more than two colors, which are usually warn as signal colors against the skin toxins of these frogs. The first finger of the frogs are greatly reduced. Her sister group Andinobates differs from Ranitomeya by two vertebrae fused together and the lack of net-like markings on the legs, which can be seen in almost every Ranitomeya type.

Species

Ranitomeya originally included many species of the former genus Dendrobates collection, 2011, however, 12 species were hived off and placed in the new genus Andinobates. At the same time in this revision by Brown, Twomey et al. synonymized several species and a new way Ranitomeya toraro described. Ranitomeya rubrocephala nomen dubium is a and is no longer on the rolls of the genus since 2011.

In 2012, 16 species of the genus Ranitomeya were known, but it is likely that because of the large variability in the characteristics and the mosaic distribution area many cryptic species exist that have yet to be genetically analyzed and described.

  • Ranitomeya amazonica ( Schulte, 1999)
  • Ranitomeya benedicta (Brown, Twomey, Pepper & Sanchez- Rodriguez, 2008)
  • Ranitomeya cyanovittata ( Pérez- Peña, Chávez, Twomey & Brown, 2010)
  • Ranitomeya defleri ( Twomey & Brown, 2009)
  • Ranitomeya fantastica ( Boulenger, 1884)
  • Ranitomeya flavovittata ( Schulte, 1999)
  • Ranitomeya imitator ( Schulte, 1986) Ranitomeya intermedia ( Schulte, 1999) was synonymized with this type
  • Ranitomeya reticulata ( Boulenger, 1884) Ranitomeya ignea ( Melin, 1941) is a synonym of this species since 2011
  • Ranitomeya sirensis ( Aichinger, 1991), Ranitomeya biolat ( Morales, 1992) and Ranitomeya lamasi ( Morales, 1992) are synonyms of this type since 2011
  • Ranitomeya summersi (Brown, Twomey, Pepper & Sanchez- Rodriguez, 2008)
  • Ranitomeya toraro (Brown et al., 2011)
  • Ranitomeya uakarii (Brown, Schulte & Summers, 2006)
  • Ranitomeya vanzolinii ( Myers, 1982)
  • Ranitomeya variabilis (Zimmermann & Zimmermann, 1988) This kind since the 2011 revision also includes populations that have been previously referred to as Ranitomeya ventrimaculata.
  • Ranitomeya ventrimaculata ( Shreve, 1935) This type now includes all populations that are earlier than Ranitomeya duellmani ( Schulte, 1999) were described. R. ventrimaculata is because of the priority rule, the valid name since 2011 for R. duellmani. The earlier than R. ventrimaculata known frogs were assigned to R. variabilis.
  • Ranitomeya yavaricola ( Pérez- Peña, Chávez, Twomey & Brown, 2010)
Lissamphibia Amazon River Mimic poison frog
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