Phyllobates Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Phyllobates Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 637. Type species: Phyllobates bicolor Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by monotypy. Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Anonymous, 2009, Opin. 2223, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 66: 103-105.
Phyllobates — Cocteau and Bibron, 1843, in de la Sagra (ed.)Hist. Phys. Polit. Nat. Cuba, 4 (Reptiles): 140.
English Names
Golden Poison Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).
Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 50).
Leaf Climbers (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 50).
Poison Arrow Frogs (CITES).
Distribution
Nicaragua to Colombia.
Comment
Even though most of the species formerly included in this genus, except for most of the former Phyllobates bicolor group, have been transferred to other genera, the most comprehensive account of this genus is that by Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 1-53. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 128, for a discussion of the generic description; CWM disagrees with Dubois' interpretation. Widmer, Lötters, and Jungfer, 2000, Naturwissenschaften, 87: 559-562, provided a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the species. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the earlier result that Phyllobates is the sister taxon of the remaining dendrobatines.
Contained taxa
- Phyllobates aurotaenia (Boulenger, 1913)
- Phyllobates bicolor Duméril and Bibron, 1841
- Phyllobates lugubris (Schmidt, 1857)
- Phyllobates terribilis Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978
- Phyllobates vittatus (Cope, 1893)
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