Oophaga Bauer, 1994
Oophaga Bauer, 1994, Ripa, Netherlands, Fall: 4. Type species: Dendrobates pumilio Schmidt, 1857, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Caribbean Nicaragua through Costa Rica and Panama to the Chocó and western slopes of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador.
Comment
Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 561, commented on the taxon. Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 0001-0014, disputed the separation from Dendrobates, but did not falsify the phylogenetic structure upon which this taxonomy was based. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the earlier result and adopted the same taxonomy. Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, Von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Perez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 10, rejected this synonymy.
Contained taxa
- Oophaga arborea (Myers, Daly, and Martínez, 1984)
- Oophaga granulifera (Taylor, 1958)
- Oophaga histrionica (Berthold, 1845)
- Oophaga lehmanni (Myers and Daly, 1976)
- Oophaga occultator (Myers and Daly, 1976)
- Oophaga pumilio (Schmidt, 1857)
- Oophaga speciosa (Schmidt, 1857)
- Oophaga sylvatica (Funkhouser, 1956)
- Oophaga vicentei (Jungfer, Weygoldt, and Juraske, 1996)
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