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Allobatinae 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.
Allobatidae — Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 44. Lapsus for Aromobatidae.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador, and north and west in Central America to Nicaragua; Guyanan region and Amazonian drainage of South America in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana; Martinique.
Comment
Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, suggested that likely several more genera will be recognized within this group as the diverse genus Allobates is partitioned. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, confirmed the monophyly of this taxon, although not including Allobates alagoanus, and its position as the sister taxon of Aromobatinae and provided a tree of their exemplar species. See comment under Aromobatidae regarding apparent instability of the overall tree. See comment under Aromobatidae.
Contained taxa (60 sp.):
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