Hyloxalus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Hyloxalinae > Genus: Hyloxalus

Hyloxalus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 59. Type species: Hyloxalus fuliginosus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, by subsequent designation of Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 747. Synonymy (with Prostherapis) by Dunn in Test, 1956, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 577: 6; Dunn, 1957, Copeia, 1957: 77.

Phyllodromus Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862-1865: Pl. 3, fig. 3. Type species: Phyllodromus pulchellum Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, by monotypy. Synonymy with Prostherapis by Peracca, 1904, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 19 (465): 17. Synonymy with Colostethus by Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 147-162.

Hylixalus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 137. Unjustified emendation of Hyloxalus.

Cryptophyllobates Lötters, Jungfer, and Widmer, 2000, Jahresheft. Ges. Naturkd. Württemberg, 156: 236. Type species: Phyllobates azureiventris Kneller and Henle, 1985, by original designation. Synonymy by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Panama through Colombia Ecuador, and Peru on the Pacific coast, Andean Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru as well and eastern foothills of the Andes in Bolivia to Venezuela, east to the upper Amazona Basin.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Colostethus by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168, where it had been placed by Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 147-162. Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 0001-0014, discussed the phylogenetic structure and biogeography of the taxon. Páez-Vacas, Coloma, and Santos, 2010, Zootaxa, 2711: 1-75, reported on the systematics and phylogenetics of the Hyloxalus bocagei complex.

Contained taxa

Hyloxalus abditaurantius (Silverstone, 1975)
Hyloxalus aeruginosus (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus anthracinus (Edwards, 1971)
Hyloxalus awa (Coloma, 1995)
Hyloxalus azureiventris (Kneller and Henle, 1985)
Hyloxalus betancuri (Rivero and Serna, 1991)
Hyloxalus bocagei Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
Hyloxalus borjai (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
Hyloxalus breviquartus (Rivero and Serna, 1986)
Hyloxalus cevallosi (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus chlorocraspedus (Caldwell, 2005)
Hyloxalus chocoensis Boulenger, 1912
Hyloxalus craspedoceps (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus delatorreae (Coloma, 1995)
Hyloxalus edwardsi (Lynch, 1982)
Hyloxalus elachyhistus (Edwards, 1971)
Hyloxalus eleutherodactylus (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus exasperatus (Duellman and Lynch, 1988)
Hyloxalus excisus (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
Hyloxalus faciopunctulatus (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus fallax (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus fascianigrus (Grant and Castro-Herrera, 1998)
Hyloxalus fuliginosus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
Hyloxalus idiomelus (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus infraguttatus (Boulenger, 1898)
Hyloxalus insulatus (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus italoi Páez-Vacas, Coloma, and Santos, 2010
Hyloxalus lehmanni (Silverstone, 1971)
Hyloxalus leucophaeus (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus littoralis (Péfaur, 1984)
Hyloxalus maculosus (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus maquipucuna (Coloma, 1995)
Hyloxalus marmoreoventris (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus mittermeieri (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus mystax (Duellman and Simmons, 1988)
Hyloxalus nexipus (Frost, 1986)
Hyloxalus parcus (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus patitae (Lötters, Morales, and Proy, 2003)
Hyloxalus peculiaris (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus peruvianus (Melin, 1941)
Hyloxalus pinguis (Rivero and Granados-Díaz, 1990)
Hyloxalus pulchellus (Jiménez de la Espada, 1875)
Hyloxalus pulcherrimus (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus pumilus (Rivero, 1991)
Hyloxalus ramosi (Silverstone, 1971)
Hyloxalus ruizi (Lynch, 1982)
Hyloxalus saltuarius (Grant and Ardila-Robayo, 2002)
Hyloxalus sauli (Edwards, 1974)
Hyloxalus shuar (Duellman and Simmons, 1988)
Hyloxalus sordidatus (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus spilotogaster (Duellman, 2004)
Hyloxalus subpunctatus (Cope, 1899)
Hyloxalus sylvaticus (Barbour and Noble, 1920)
Hyloxalus toachi (Coloma, 1995)
Hyloxalus utcubambensis (Morales, 1994)
Hyloxalus vergeli Hellmich, 1940
Hyloxalus vertebralis (Boulenger, 1899)
Hyloxalus whymperi (Boulenger, 1882)
Hyloxalus yasuni Páez-Vacas, Coloma, and Santos, 2010

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