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Ranitomeya Bauer, 1986
Ranitomeya Anonymous, 1985, Ripa, Netherlands, April: 2. Type species: Dendrobates reticulatus Boulenger, 1884 "1883", by original designation. Unavailable name by reason of anonymous ("L.B.") publication.
Ranitomeya Bauer, 1986, Ripa, Netherlands, November: 11. Type species: Dendrobates reticulatus Boulenger, 1884 "1883", by original designation.
Ranitomeya Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 2. Type species: Dendrobates reticulatus Boulenger, 1884 "1883", by original designation.
Nomina inquirenda - Name(s) unassigned to a living or extinct population
Dendrobates rubrocephalus Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 138. Holotype: R. Schulte Collection BD 5H, to be deposited in the MUSM, by original designation. Type locality: "Ceja de Selva, Ostandenabhang und vielleicht vorgelagerte Ostkordilleren, Dep. Pasco und Junin, Höhe vermutlich zwischen 600 und 1500 m." * Ranitomeya rubrocephala—Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 171. Twomey, Brown and Lötters IN Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 90, regarded this poorly diagnosed taxon to be a nomen dubium, not associable with a living population of organisms.
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Slopes of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; Amazon drainage of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil, possibly into Bolivia, from the foothills of the Andes east to the mouth of the Amazon and north into French Guiana.
Comment
Genus redelimited and revised by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299. Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008, Zootaxa, 1823: 1–24, revised the Ranitomeya fantastica group and provided a cladogram of the species. Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3: e1000056): 1–14, disputed the separation from Dendrobates, but did not falsify the phylogenetic structure upon which that taxonomy was based. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, confirmed the earlier result and adopted the same taxonomy. 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, rejected this synonymy and reviewed and revised the genus, which they considered the sister taxon of Andinobates. Krings, Klein, Heneka, and Rödder, 2017, PLoS One, 12(2: e0171669): 1–29, reported on detailed comparative anatomy of five species of Ranitomeya: Ranitomeya vanzolinii, Ranitomeya imitator, Ranitomeya reticulata, Ranitomeya benedicta, Ranitomeya amazonica. Muell, Chávez, Prates, Guillory, Kahn, Twomey, Rodrigues, and Brown, 2022, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 168 (107389): 1–10, reported on phylogenetics within the taxon based on ultraconserved elements, redelimited some species, and discussed and modified the species groups: (1) Ranitomeya reticulata group (Ranitomeya benedicta, Ranitomeya fantastica, Ranitomeya reticulata, Ranitomeya summersi, Ranitomeya uakarii, and Ranitomeya ventrimaculata), (2) the Ranitomeya variabilis group (Ranitomeya amazonica and Ranitomeya variabilis), (3) the Ranitomeya defleri group (Ranitomeya defleri), (4) the Ranitomeya totaro group (Ranitomeya toraro), and the (5) Ranitomeya vanzolinii group (Ranitomeya cyanovittata, Ranitomeya flavovittata, Ranitomeya imitator, Ranitomeya sirensis, Ranitomeya vanzolinii, and Ranitomeya yavaricola).
Contained taxa (16 sp.):
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