Ameerega
Ameerega is a genus of poison dart frogs in the family Dendrobatidae. These frogs live around rocks that are nearby streams.[1][2] They are found in central South America north to Panama.[1] It contains many former species of the genus Epipedobates.[3]
| Ameerega | |
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| Ameerega trivittata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Colostethinae |
| Genus: | Ameerega Bauer, 1986 |
| Diversity | |
| See text | |
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Ameerega:[1]
- Ameerega altamazonica Twomey and Brown, 2008
- Ameerega bassleri (Melin, 1941)
- Ameerega berohoka Vaz-Silva and Maciel, 2011[4]
- Ameerega bilinguis (Jungfer, 1989)
- Ameerega boehmei Lötters, Schmitz, Reichle, Rödder, and Quennet, 2009
- Ameerega boliviana (Boulenger, 1902)
- Ameerega braccata (Steindachner, 1864)
- Ameerega cainarachi (Schulte, 1989)
- Ameerega flavopicta (Lutz, 1925)
- Ameerega hahneli (Boulenger, 1884)
- Ameerega ignipedis Brown and Twomey, 2009
- Ameerega ingeri (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
- Ameerega labialis (Cope, 1874)
- Ameerega macero (Rodriguez and Myers, 1993)
- Ameerega munduruku Neves, Silva, Akieda, Cabrera, Koroiva, and Santana, 2017
- Ameerega parvula (Boulenger, 1882)
- Ameerega pepperi Brown and Twomey, 2009
- Ameerega peruviridis Bauer, 1986
- Ameerega petersi (Silverstone, 1976)
- Ameerega picta (Bibron, 1838)
- Ameerega planipaleae (Morales and Velazco, 1998)
- Ameerega pongoensis (Schulte, 1999)
- Ameerega pulchripecta (Silverstone, 1976)
- Ameerega rubriventris (Lötters, Debold, Henle, Glaw, and Kneller, 1997)
- Ameerega shihuemoy (Serrano, 2017)
- Ameerega silverstonei (Myers and Daly, 1979)
- Ameerega simulans (Myers, Rodriguez, and Icochea, 1998)
- Ameerega trivittata (Spix, 1824)
- Ameerega yoshina Brown and Twomey, 2009
- Ameerega yungicola (Lötters, Schmitz, and Reichle, 2005)
References
- Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ameerega Bauer, 1986". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- Grant, T.; Frost, D. R.; Caldwell, J. P.; Gagliardo, R.; Haddad, C. F. B.; Kok, P. J. R.; Means, D. B.; Noonan, B. P.; Schargel, W. E. & Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2.
- Vaz-Silva, W. & Maciel, N.M. (2011). "A new cryptic species of Ameerega (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from Brazilian Cerrado." Zootaxa 2826: 57-68.
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