Allobates olfersioides (Lutz, 1925)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates olfersioides

Eupemphix olfersioïdes Lutz, 1925, C. R. Mém. Hebd. Séances Soc. Biol. Filial., Paris, 93 (1925, vol. 2): 138. Syntypes: Not stated; by museum records including MNRJ 783 and (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 49) USNM 96412, 96539–40; Verdade and Rodrigues, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 572, regarded MNRJ 783 as the holotype and noted that it only exists as a piece of flesh. Type locality: "Trouvée sur le littoral de l'Etat de Rio-de-Janeiro", Brazil; restricted to "Angra dos Reis, Estado do Rio de Janeiro", Brazil, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 40.

Phyllobates olfersioides — Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 40; Bokermann, 1967, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 27: 349.

Phyllobates alagoanus Bokermann, 1967, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 27: 351. Holotype: WCAB 2801, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "Mangabeiras, Estado de Alagoas, Brasil". Synonymy by Verdade and Rodrigues, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 572.

Phyllobates capixaba Bokermann, 1967, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 27: 349. Holotype: WCAB 1952, by original designation; now in MZUSP 73752 according to Verdade and Rodrigues, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 573. Type locality: "próximo à Lagoa Macuco, Refúgio Sooretama, Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brasil". Synonymy by Verdade and Rodrigues, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 572.

Phyllobates carioca Bokermann, 1967, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 27: 352. Holotype: WCAB 38601, by original designation; now in MZUSP 76653 according to Verdade and Rodrigues, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 573. Type locality: "Represa Rio Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara [now Rio de Janeiro], Brasil". Synonymy by Verdade and Rodrigues, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 572.

Colostethus olfersioides — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Colostethus alagoanus — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Colostethus capixaba — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Colostethus carioca — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Allobates olfersioides — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

Allobates alagoanus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

Allobates capixaba — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

Allobates carioca — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

Common Names

Rio Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).

Alagoas Rocket Frog (Allobates alagoanus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Linhares Rocket Frog (Allobates capixaba [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Guanabara Rocket Frog (Allobates carioca [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

Coastal regions of the Atlantic Forest domain from Alagoas in the north to the south of the state of Rio de Janeiro, including parts of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, Brazil, 0–1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Colostethus brunneus by Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148, where it had been placed by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 49, and Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 48. Prior to the revision of Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, placed in the Colostethus brunneus group (Group II) of Rivero, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 3–32. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 35, provided a brief account and photo. Prior to the revision of Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, Allobates alagoanus, Allobates capixaba, and Allobates carioca had been placed in the Colostethus alagoanus group (Group III) of Rivero, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 3–32; or the Colostethus trilineatus group of Morales, 2002 "2000", Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 13: 1–59 (who provided accounts for this species as Allobates alagoanus). Verdade and Rodrigues, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 566–580, provided a revision of the species and placed Allobates alagoanus, Allobates capixaba, and Allobates carioca into synonymy, as well as describing larval morphology and noting that at the time of their writing no recording of the advertisement call could be found. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 34, provided a brief account (as Allobates carioca) and photo. See comment under Aromobatidae. Forti, Silva, and Toledo, 2017, ZooKeys, 692: 141–153, reported on the acoustic repertoise of Allobates olfersioides suggesting that the synonymy of Allobates alagoanus, Allobates capixaba, and Allobates carioca might have been premature. Juncá, 2006, Biota Neotrop., 6: 1–17, briefly summarized the presence of this species (as Colostethus alagoanus) in the Serra da Jibóia region, Bahia, Brazil, and its habitat. Dubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, summarized the literature on larval morphology. See Dubeux, Nascimento, Lima, Magalhães, Silva, Gonçalves, Almeida, Correia, Garda, Mesquita, Rossa-Feres, and Mott, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (2: e20180718): 1–24, for characterization and identification of larvae north of the Rio São Francisco in the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Réjaud, Rodrigues, Crawford, Castroviejo-Fisher, Jaramillo-Martinez, Chaparro, Glaw, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Moravec, De la Riva, Pérez-Peña, Lima, Werneck, Hrbek, Ron, Ernst, Kok, Driskell, Chave, and Fouquet, 2020, J. Biogeograph., 47: 2472–2482, noted that this nominal taxon is composed of several cryptic species. Reported from the Environmental Protection Area of Catolé and Fernão Velho, Alagoas, Brazil, by Dubeux, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2021, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 61 (e20216176): 1–10, who provided a key to the frogs of that region.     

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