Dendrobatoidea Cope, 1865

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea
343 species

Phyllobatae Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 32. Type genus: Phyllobates Bibron in de la Sagra, 1840. See comment.

Eubaphidae Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Eubaphus Bonaparte, 1831.

Eubaphina — Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p.

Hylaplesidae Günther, 1858, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 345. Type genus: Hylaplesia Boie, 1827 (= Hysaplesia Boie, 1826).

Dendrobatidae Cope, 1865, Nat. Hist. Rev., N.S., 5: 100. Type genus: Dendrobates Wagler, 1830. Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology and given precedence over Phyllobatae Fitzinger, 1843, whenever the two names are considered synonyms by Anonymous, 2009, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 66: 103-105.

Colostethidae Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 191. Type genus: Colostethus Cope, 1866.

Hylaplesiina — Günther, 1868, Zool. Rec., 4: 148.

Calostethina — Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 293. Incorrect subsequent spelling and reranking of Colostethidae Cope, 1867, as a subfamily.

Calostethidae — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 7. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Hylaplesiidae — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 8.

Hylaplesiida — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 112.

Dendrobatinae — Gadow, 1901, Amphibia and Reptiles: 139, 237; Laurent, 1942, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 18: 1-20.

Phyllobatidae — Parker, 1933, Trop. Agric., Trinidad, 10: 12; Laurent, 1980 "1979", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 104: 418; Laurent, 1986, in Grassé and Delsol (eds.), Traite de Zool., 14: 656.

Phyllobatinae — Ardila-Robayo, 1979, Caldasia, 12: 385.

Dendrobatoidae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 309. Epifamily.

Dendrobatoidea —  Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 156. Superfamily. 

Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 157. Type genus: Aromobates Myers, Paolillo, and Daly, 1991. 

Anomaloglossinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 158. Type genus: Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006. 

Allobatinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 161. Type genus: Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988.  

Hyloxalinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168. Type genus: Hyloxalus Jimenez de la Espada, 1871 "1870". 

Aromobatinae — Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 44.

Nomina inquirenda - Name(s) unassigned to a living or extinct population

Dendrobates labialis Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 129. Holotype: Presumably originally in ANSP, not located. Type locality: "Nauta", Loreto, Peru. Considered a nomen dubium by  Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 391, and Guillory, French, Twomey, Chávez, Prates, von May, De la Riva, Lötters, Reichle, Serrano-Rojas, Whitworth, and Brown, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 142 (106638): 1–13. * Hylaplesia labialis — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 112; * Epipedobates labialis — Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 219; * Ameerega labialis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 130, by implication; Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 164.

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Nicaragua to the Pacific slopes of Colombia and Ecuador; east of the Andes to Bolivia and to the Guianas and southeastern Brazil.

Comment

 Grant, Rada, Anganoy-Criollo, Batista, Dias, Jeckel, Machado, and Rueda-Almonacid, 2017, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 12 (Special Issue): 1–90, provided a detailed phylogenetic analysis and revisonary notes on the systematics of the group. Streicher, Miller, Guerrero, Correa-Quezada, Ortiz, Crawford, Pie, and Wiens, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 119: 128–143, reported on a molecular study of hyloid frogs, finding Dendrobatoidea to be part of a large monophyletic group composed of Brachycephaloidea, Allophrynidae, Centrolenidae, Dendrobatoidea, Leptodactylidae, Odontophrynidae, and Bufonidae, which they termed Coummutabirana. Cavalcanti, Luna, Faivovich, and Grant, 2022, J. Anat., 240: 447–465, reported on morphological synapomorphies of groups within the superfamily with special reference to the morphology of the hands. Elias-Costa, Araujo-Vieira, and Faivovich, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 498–517, discussed the evolution of submandibular musculature optimized on the tree of Jetz and Pyron, 2018, Nature Ecol. & Evol., 2: 850–858, which provided morphological synapomorphies of this taxon.  

Contained taxa (343 sp.):

Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 (137 sp.)
Dendrobatidae Cope, 1865 (1850) (206 sp.)

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