Biology:Allobates
| Allobates | |
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| Brilliant-thighed poison frog (Allobates femoralis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Aromobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Allobatinae |
| Genus: | Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988 |
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58, see text | |
Allobates is a genus of frogs in the family Aromobatidae.[1] They are native to the Central and South Americas, from Nicaragua to Bolivia and Brazil, with one species on Martinique.[1][2]
Description and ecology
Species of the genus Allobates are mostly small frogs. Dorsal colouration is cryptic, with the exception of the Allobates femoralis group that has bright colours. They are mostly terrestrial frogs found in the leaf litter of tropical rain forests. Most species deposit eggs in the leaf litter; tadpoles are transported to the water on the backs of the parents. Allobates nidicola and Allobates chalcopis, however, have endotrophic tadpoles that develop into froglets in the nest, without entering water.[2]
Taxonomy
There are 58 species recognised in the genus Allobates:[1][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. 2014. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Aromobatidae/Allobatinae/Allobates.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. 2014. pp. 487–488.
- ↑ "Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call". PeerJ 8: e9979. 2020-11-04. doi:10.7717/peerj.9979. PMID 33194373.
- ↑ "A third microendemic to the Iwokrama Mountains of central Guyana: a new "cryptic" species of Allobates Zimmerman and Zimmerman, 1988 (Anura: Aromobatidae).". Organisms Diversity & Evolution 13 (4): 621–38. December 2013. doi:10.1007/s13127-013-0144-4.
- ↑ "A new diminutive species of Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988 (Anura, Aromobatidae) from the northwestern Rio Madeira-Rio Tapajós interfluve, Amazonas, Brazil". Zootaxa 3609 (3): 251–73. January 2013. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3609.3.1. PMID 24699589.
External links
- "The Chirping Frog" - 2018 BBC internet article on new species found in the Pico da Neblina National Park, Brazil
Wikidata ☰ Q135206 entry
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