Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 157.
Aromobatinae — Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol. (Suppl. Electronic Text), 7(3)e56: 44.
English Names
Cryptic Forest Frogs (Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 460).
Distribution
Pacific slopes the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador; eastern slopes of the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia, throughout the Amazonian region, and in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil; southern Nicaragua to Colombia.
Comment
See comment under Dendrobatidae, with which the literature of Aromobatidae was intertwined until the recent taxonomic revision by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 1-268. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 44-55, provided accounts and discussed the evidence for the phylogenetic placement of the family. Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 460-462, provided a general taxonomic account and map as part of a much more general and extensive overview of amphibian biology. Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 0001-0014, provided a discussion of phylogenetics and biogeography, disputed recognition of Aromobatidae at that rank, but corroborated the phylogenetic structure upon which this partition was based. They also presented in their tree (their Fig. S3A) the unexpected result of Allobates alagoanus (= Allobates olfersioides) as the sister taxon of all remaining aromobatids, but did not comment on this anomaly, which, if not due to some error suggests that both Allobates and Allobatinae are paraphyletic with respect to Anomaloglossinae and Aromobatinae, both of which they recovered as monophyletic. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of this group and its sister-taxon status of Dendrobatidae, although they did not include Allobates alagoanus but found Rheobates as the sister taxon of all other aromobatids, therefore suggesting the paraphyly of Anomaloglossinae; they also adopted the taxonomy of Santos et al., 2009. Blackburn and Wake, 2011, In Zhang (ed.), Zootaxa, 3148, 3148: 39-55, retained Aromobatidae and discussed the controversy as well as dispensing with subfamilies due to the apparent paraphyly of Allobates and Anomaloglossinae. These subfamilies are provisionally retained pending an overall analysis.
Contained taxa
- "Prostherapis" dunni Rivero, 1961
- Allobatinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 (46 sp.)
- Anomaloglossinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 (31 sp.)
- Aromobatinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 (37 sp.)
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