Ameerega Bauer, 1986

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Colostethinae > Genus: Ameerega
29 species

Ameerega Bauer, 1986, Ripa, Netherlands, November: 5. Type species: Hyla trivittata Spix, 1824, by original designation.

Phobobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988, Salamandra, 24: 134. Type species: Dendrobates silverstonei Myers and Daly, 1979, by original designation. Synonymy with Epipedobates by Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991, Am. Mus. Novit., 3002: 18. Synonymy with Ameerega noted by Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 283. Synonymy with Ameerega by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 163.

Pseudendrobates Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 2. Type species: Dendrobates silverstonei Myers and Daly, 1979, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Phyllobates. Objective synonym by reason of sharing the type species.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Mato Grosso do Sul and Goias, Brazil, north and northwest throughout the Amazonian South America, west to the foothills of the Andes in Bolivia to Venezuela.

Comment

See Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, for discussion of taxonomic history and revision. Roberts, Brown, von May, Arizabal, Schulte, and Summers, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 41: 149-164, discussed phylogeny of selected species (as Epipedobates). See comment under Colostethus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of this taxon, although suggesting that its recognition renders Colostethus paraphyletic; they also provided a tree of exemplar species. 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,  discussed phylogenetics within the genus based on ultraconserved genomic elements, redelimited the species groups. 

Contained taxa (29 sp.):

Ameerega altamazonica Twomey and Brown, 2008
Ameerega bassleri (Melin, 1941)
Ameerega berohoka Vaz-Silva and Maciel, 2011
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 imasmari Brown, Siu-Ting, von May, Twomey, Guillory, Deutsch, and Chávez, 2019
Ameerega ingeri (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
Ameerega macero (Rodriguez and Myers, 1993)
Ameerega munduruku Neves, Silva, Akieda, Cabrera, Koroiva, and Santana, 2017
Ameerega panguana Brown, Siu-Ting, von May, Twomey, Guillory, Deutsch, and Chávez, 2019, Zootaxa, 4712
Ameerega parvula (Boulenger, 1882)
Ameerega pepperi Brown and Twomey, 2009
Ameerega petersi (Silverstone, 1976)
Ameerega picta (Tschudi, 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-Rojas, Whitworth, Villacampa-Ortega, von May, Gutiérrez, Padial, and Chaparro, 2017
Ameerega silverstonei (Myers and Daly, 1979)
Ameerega simulans (Myers, Rodriguez, and Icochea, 1998)
Ameerega trivittata (Spix, 1824)
Ameerega yoshina Brown and Twomey, 2009

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