Epipedobates Myers, 1987
Epipedobates Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 302. Type species: Prostherapis tricolor Boulenger, 1899, by original designation.
English Names
Phantasmal Poison Frogs (Epipedobates: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Distribution
West of the Andes (including the lower western slopes) from southwestern Ecuador to Chocó of western Colombia.
Comment
See taxonomic history, revision, and redelimiation of this genus by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 166. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the sister taxon relationship of Epipedobates and Silverstoneia, and provided a tree of molecular exemplars.
Contained taxa
- Epipedobates anthonyi (Noble, 1921)
- Epipedobates boulengeri (Barbour, 1909)
- Epipedobates darwinwallacei Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2011
- Epipedobates espinosai (Funkhouser, 1956)
- Epipedobates machalilla (Coloma, 1995)
- Epipedobates narinensis Mueses-Cisneros, Cepeda-Quilindo, and Moreno-Quintero, 2008
- Epipedobates tricolor (Boulenger, 1899)
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