Dendrobatinae Cope, 1865 (1850)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae
66 species

Phyllobatae Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 32. Type genus: Phyllobates Duméril and Bibron, 1841.

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.

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

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.

Dendrobatini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 141. Tribe. 

Andinobatina Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 141. Type genus: Andinobates Twomey, Brown, Amézquita and Mejía-Vargas, 2011. Subtribe. 

Andinobatinia — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 141. Infratribe. 

Excidobatinia Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 141. Type genus: Excidobates Twomey and Brown, 2008. Infratribe. 

Dendrobatina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 141. Subtribe. 

Phyllobatini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 141. Tribe. 

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Nicaragua east to Guianan South America, south to the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia and the lower Amazon Basin in Brazil.

Comment

Roberts, Brown, von May, Arizabal, Presar, Symula, Schulte, and Summers, 2006, Herpetol. J., 16: 377–385, discussed the phylogenetics of this group under the older inclusive name Dendrobates. Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 1–120, provided a key to the small aposematic species of South America. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, confirmed the monophyly of this taxon and provided a tree of their molecular exemplars. However, they adopted an outdated taxonomy that makes interpreting their results difficult. 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, discussed the alternative hypotheses in the relationships of the genera and recognized a tribe, Dendrobatini, to include all Dendrobatinae excluding the "Colostethus" ruthveni group. The claim by Portik, Streicher, and Wiens, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 188 (107907): 67, that their placement of Colostethus ruthveni in Dendrobatinae renders Colostethinae non-monophyletic is surprising inasmuch as Grant, Rada, Anganoy-Criollo, Batista, Dias, Jeckel, Machado, and Rueda-Almonacid, 2017, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 12 (Special Issue): 1–90 (not cited by Portik et al., 2023) already noted that the Colostethus ruthveni group (Colostethus ruthveni and an unnamed species) sits within Dendrobatinae and not within Colostethus. Grant et al. (2017) placed quotation marks around Colostethus to mark that its generic assignment remains to be identified. 

Contained taxa (66 sp.):

"Colostethus" ruthveni Kaplan, 1997
Adelphobates Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 (3 sp.)
Andinobates Twomey, Brown, Amézquita, and Mejía-Vargas, 2011 (16 sp.)
Dendrobates Wagler, 1830 (5 sp.)
Excidobates Twomey and Brown, 2008 (3 sp.)
Minyobates Myers, 1987 (1 sp.)
Oophaga Bauer, 1994 (12 sp.)
Phyllobates Bibron, 1840 (7 sp.)
Ranitomeya Bauer, 1986 (18 sp.)

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