Ranitomeya Bauer, 1986

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Ranitomeya
16 species

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.

English 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): 0001-0014, 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, in their study of Genbank sequences, 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.):

Ranitomeya amazonica (Schulte, 1999)
Ranitomeya benedicta Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008
Ranitomeya cyanovittata Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010
Ranitomeya defleri Twomey and Brown, 2009
Ranitomeya fantastica (Boulenger, 1884)
Ranitomeya flavovittata (Schulte, 1999)
Ranitomeya imitator (Schulte, 1986)
Ranitomeya reticulata (Boulenger, 1884)
Ranitomeya sirensis (Aichinger, 1991)
Ranitomeya summersi Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008
Ranitomeya toraro Brown, Caldwell, Twomey, Melo-Sampaio, and Souza, 2011
Ranitomeya uakarii (Brown, Schulte, and Summers, 2006)
Ranitomeya vanzolinii (Myers, 1982)
Ranitomeya variabilis (Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988)
Ranitomeya ventrimaculata (Shreve, 1935)
Ranitomeya yavaricola Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010

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