Aromobates Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991
Aromobates Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991, Am. Mus. Novit., 3002: 4. Type species: Aromobates nocturnus Myers, 1991, by original designation.
Nephelobates La Marca, 1994, Inst. Geograf. Fac. Cienc. Forestal., Univ. Los Andes, An. Invest., 1991: 39-41. Type species: Phyllobates alboguttatus Boulenger, 1903, by original designation. Synonymy by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 160.
English Names
Skunk Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).
Distribution
Mérida Andes of Venezuela and adjacent Cordillera Oriental of Colombia.
Comment
Aromobates was conjectured in the original publication to be restricted solely to Aromobates nocturus and the sister-taxon of remaining dendrobatids (now Dendrobatoidea), although similar to the geographically proximate Nephelobates. Grant, Humphrey, and Myers, 1997, Am. Mus. Novit., 3212: 29, suggested a possible relationship of Nephelobates with Aromobates. Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 1-268, redelimited Aromobates to include Nephelobates and provided a well-corrobated phylogeny of the group. Nephelobates was the former Colostethus alboguttatus group of Rivero, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 3-32. See comment by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 377, regarding the generic arrangements of (former) Aromobates, Colostethus, Mannophryne, and Nephelobates. Vences, Kosuch, Boistel, Haddad, La Marca, and Lötters, 2003, Organisms Divers. Evol., 3: 219, also discussed phylogeny within Nephelobates. Barrio-Amorós, Rivero, and Santos, 2011, Zootaxa, 3063: 39-52, suggested that Aromobates is difficult to differentiate from Allobates except by molecular markers; they also confirmed the synonymy of Nephelobates with Aromobates. Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012, Zootaxa, 3422: 1-31, reported on the molecular phylogenetics and systematics of the group.
Contained taxa
- Aromobates alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1903)
- Aromobates cannatellai Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012
- Aromobates capurinensis (Péfaur, 1993)
- Aromobates duranti (Péfaur, 1985)
- Aromobates ericksonae Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012
- Aromobates haydeeae (Rivero, 1978)
- Aromobates leopardalis (Rivero, 1978)
- Aromobates mayorgai (Rivero, 1980)
- Aromobates meridensis (Dole and Durant, 1972)
- Aromobates molinarii (La Marca, 1985)
- Aromobates nocturnus Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991
- Aromobates ornatissimus Barrio-Amorós, Rivero, and Santos, 2011
- Aromobates orostoma (Rivero, 1978)
- Aromobates saltuensis (Rivero, 1980)
- Aromobates serranus (Péfaur, 1985)
- Aromobates tokuko Rojas-Runjaic, Infante-Rivero, and Barrio-Amorós, 2011
- Aromobates walterarpi La Marca and Otero-López, 2012
- Aromobates zippeli Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012
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