Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Familia: Dendrobatidae
Subfamilia: Colostethinae
Genus: Colostethus
Species: C. agilis – C. furviventris – C. imbricolus – C. inguinalis – C. jacobuspetersi – C. latinasus – C. lynchi – C. mertensi – C. panamensis – C. pratti – C. ruthveni – C. thorntoni – C. ucumari
Species group "Colostethus"[1] : C. poecilonotus – C. ramirezi
Name
Colostethus Cope, 1866
Type species: Phyllobates latinasus Cope, 1863
Synonyms
Colostethus Cope, 1866
Prostherapis Cope, 1868
Prestherapis — Donoso-Barros, 1965
References
Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 130.
Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Colostethus access date 22 May 2008
Note:
This genus was delimitated by Frost et. al. and many species were taken out.
These species could not be allocated for now to any genus.
Vernacular names
English: Rocket Frogs
Colostethus is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America, from Panama south to Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru. Their common name is rocket frogs,[1] but this name may refer to frogs in other genera and families, following the taxonomic revision of the genus in 2006.[2]
Taxonomy
Formerly, the genus Colostethus was found to be "rampantly nonmonophyletic" in the taxonomic revision of poison dart frogs published in 2006.[3] Before the revision, it had 138 species, but this was reduced to 18 species, after species of the former Colostethus were distributed among eight genera in two families, that is, in Dendrobatidae and in the newly established family Aromobatidae (e..g., Anomaloglossus). Within Dendrobatidae, many former Colostethus species were moved to Hyloxalus, while three were moved to the new genus Silverstoneia.[3] Nevertheless, Colostethus is still considered paraphyletic because some Colostethus are more closely related to Ameerega than to other Colostethus.[1]
Description
Dorsal colouration is cryptic, brown. A pale oblique lateral stripe is present (but may be broken or incomplete). Dorsal skin is granular posteriorly. In adult males, third finger is swollen.[3]
Species
There are currently 20 species in this genus:[1]
Colostethus agilis Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1985
Colostethus alacris Rivero and Granados-Díaz, 1990
Colostethus dysprosium Rivero and Serna, 2000
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
Colostethus yaguara Rivero and Serna, 1991
References
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.
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.
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