Epipedobates

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| image = Epipedobates tricolor close.jpg

| image_caption = Epipedobates tricolor

| taxon = Epipedobates

| authority = Myers, 1987

| type_species = Prostherapis tricolor

| type_species_authority = Boulenger, 1899

| diversity = 7 species (see text)

}}

Epipedobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to northern South America (Colombia and Ecuador) west of the Andes, including the western slopes. Common name phantasmal poison frogs has been suggested for the genus.{{cite web |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Dendrobatoidea/Dendrobatidae/Colostethinae/Epipedobates |title=Epipedobates Myers, 1987 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2024 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=17 June 2024}}

Taxonomy

Epipedobates was erected in 1987 in an attempt to split dendrobatids into monophyletic genera, accommodating species that had until then been placed in Phyllobates. In the major revision of poison dart frogs in 2006, most of the species formerly placed in Epipedobates were then transferred to Ameerega, leaving behind just five species.{{cite journal |author1=Grant, T. |author2=Frost, D. R. |author3=Caldwell, J. P. |author4=Gagliardo, R. |author5=Haddad, C. F. B. |author6=Kok, P. J. R. |author7=Means, D. B. |author8=Noonan, B. P. |author9=Schargel, W. E. |author10=Wheeler, W. C. |name-list-style=amp |year=2006 |title=Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae) |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=299 |pages=1–262 |doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=82263880 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf |access-date=2008-09-22 |archive-date=2009-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226033244/http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf |url-status=dead }} The species count of Epipedobates had increased to seven by early 2024.

Description

Dorsal colouration is cryptic, brown. A pale oblique lateral stripe is present. Dorsal skin is smooth or with irregularly scattered granules or tubercles, most distinct and prevalent posteriorly. In adult males, third finger is swollen.

Species

There are seven species:{{cite web |url=http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Dendrobatidae.shtml|title=Dendrobatidae |year=2015 |work=AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application] |publisher=Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb |accessdate=17 April 2015}}

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
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120px	Epipedobates anthonyi (Noble, 1921) {{Cite journal \|last=Noble \|first=Gladwyn Kingsley \|date=30 Dec 1921 \|title=Five new species of Salientia from South America \|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4615 \|journal=American Museum Novitates \|issue=29 \|pages=1–7\|hdl=2246/4615 }}	Anthony's poison arrow frog	Ecuador and Peru.
	Epipedobates boulengeri (Barbour, 1909){{Cite journal \|last=Barbour \|first=Thomas \|date=1909 \|title=Corrections regarding the names of two recently described Amphibia Salientia \|url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/68548/1909%20proc%20Bio%20V%2022%20Lyon%20Nyeticebus%20p89%20pdf.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington \|volume=22 \|pages=89}}{{Cite journal \|last=Barbour \|first=Thomas \|date=1905 \|title=The Vertebrata of Gorgona Island, Colombia: Reptilia; Amphibia \|url=https://eurekamag.com/research/023/811/023811086.php \|journal=Bulletin of the Museum at Harvard College \|volume=46 \|issue=5 \|pages=98–102}}	marbled poison frog or marbled poison-arrow frog	Colombia (Cauca, Nariño, Valle del Cauca Departments, including Gorgona Island) and northwestern Ecuador
120px	Epipedobates espinosai (Funkhouser, 1956) {{Cite journal \|last=Funkhouser \|first=John W. \|date=17 September 1956 \|title=New frogs from Ecuador and southwestern Colombia \|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51123856#page/107/mode/1up \|journal=Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society \|volume=41 \|issue=9 \|pages=73–80 \|doi=10.5962/p.190356 \|s2cid=90986498 \|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library\|doi-access=free }}		Ecuador
	Epipedobates machalilla (Coloma, 1995) {{Cite journal \|last=Coloma \|first=Luis A. \|date=13 September 1995 \|title=Ecuadorian frogs of the genus Colostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) \|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16171 \|journal=University of Kansas Natural History Museum \|volume=87 \|pages=1–72 \|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}		West Ecuador
	Epipedobates maculatus (Peters, 1873)	Confusing Poison Frog	Panama
	Epipedobates narinensis (Mueses-Cisneros, Cepeda-Quilindo, and Moreno-Quintero, 2008){{Cite journal \|last1=Mueses-Cisneros \|first1=Jonh Jairo \|last2=Cepeda-Quilindo \|first2=Belisario \|last3=Moreno-Quintero \|first3=Viviana \|date=2008 \|title=Una nueva especie de Epipedobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae) del suroccidente de Colombia \|journal=Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia \|volume=48 \|issue=1 \|doi=10.1590/s0031-10492008000100001 \|issn=0031-1049\|doi-access=free }}		Colombia
120px	Epipedobates tricolor (Boulenger, 1899) {{Cite journal \|last=Boulenger \|first=G.A. \|date=December 1899 \|title=LII—Descriptions of new Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Mr. P. O. Simons in the Andes of Ecuador \|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2014156 \|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History \|volume=4 \|issue=24 \|pages=454–457 \|doi=10.1080/00222939908678229 \|issn=0374-5481}}	Phantasmal poison frog	Ecuador

References

Category:Poison dart frogs

Category:Amphibians of South America

Category:Amphibian genera