Excidobates Twomey and Brown, 2008
Excidobates Twomey and Brown, 2008, Herpetologica, 64: 124. Type species: Dendrobates mysteriosus Myers, 1982, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Upper Río Marañón drainage in northwestern Peru (Departamento Amazonas), 200-1500 m elevation.
Comment
Considered to be the sister taxon of Ranitomeya in the original publication. Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 0001-0014, considered this taxon part of Dendrobates, but did not falsify the phylogenetic structure upon which that taxonomy is based. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the earlier result and adopted the same taxonomy. Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, Von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Perez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 10, rejected this synonymy.
Contained taxa
- Excidobates captivus (Myers, 1982)
- Excidobates condor Almendáriz, Ron, and Brito M., 2012
- Excidobates mysteriosus (Myers, 1982)
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