Rheobates Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Anomaloglossinae > Genus: Rheobates
2 species

Rheobates Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 159. Type species: Phyllobates palmatus Werner, 1899, by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Eastern slopes of the Cordillera Oriental, western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental, and across the Magdalena Valley to the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central, Colombia, 400–2000 m elevation.

Comment

Genty, Guarnizo, Ramírez, Barrientos, and Crawford, 2022, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 2022 (6774225): 1–12, reported on landscape genetics and phylogenetics within the genus, but delineated 5 species rather than the 2 named, or the three delimited by Muñoz-Ortiz, Velásquez-Álvarez, Guarnizo, and Crawford, 2015, J. Biogeograph., 42: 193–205. 

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

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