Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Oreobates

Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872, An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 1: 87. Type species: Oreobates quixensis Jiménez de la Espada, 1872, by monotypy.

Teletrema Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937, O Campo, 8: 67. Type species: Teletrema heterodactylum Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937, by monotypy. Synonymy with Eleutherodactylus by Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. Synonymy by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 111.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Lower slopes of the Andes into the upper Amazon basin from Colombia south to northern Argentina and east into western Brazil.

Comment

See account (as most of Ischnocnema) by Lynch, 1972, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 71: 8-10, who noted that the group may be derived from the Eleutherodactylus binotatus group. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 198-199, discussed the possibility of a relationship of Ischnocnema with the Eleutherodactylus binotatus group (rendering Eleutherodactylus paraphyletic). Harvey and Sheehy, 2005, Herpetologica, 61: 268-275, mapped the species in Bolivia. Caramaschi and Canedo, 2006, Zootaxa, 1116: 43-54, noted that Ischnocnema verrucosus Reinhart and Lutken, is a junior synonym of Eleutherodactylus, rendering the oldest name as Oreobates for the inclusive clade of the remainder of "Ischnocnema". Oreobates had been considered a synonym of Ischnocnema by Lynch and Schwartz, 1971, J. Herpetol., 5: 109. Padial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 152: 737-773, provided evidence for the monophyly of the taxon, its interrelationships, and its placement as the sister taxon of the Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, which implies that it may rest phylogenetically within Eleutherodactylus in the sense of Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-10097. Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 111, expanded the content of Oreobates. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 97-103, for brief accounts for Peruvian species. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of this taxon, it sister-taxon relationship with Lynchius, and provided a tree of their molecular exemplar species. Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012, Am. Mus. Novit., 3752: 1-55, reviewed and revised the taxon and suggested that it sat in a polotypy with Lynchius and Phrynopus.

Contained taxa

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