Aromobates
| Aromobates | |
|---|---|
| Aromobates ornatissimus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Aromobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Aromobatinae |
| Genus: | Aromobates Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991 |
| Type species | |
| Aromobates nocturnus Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991
| |
| Diversity | |
| 18 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Nephelobates La Marca, 1994 | |
Aromobates is a group of frogs. People call them skunk frogs in English. These frogs live in the Andes Mountains in Venezuela and Colombia. At first, scientists only put one species of frog in this group: Aromobates nocturnus.[1] Later, they decided that the frogs in Nephelobates belonged in this group too.[2]
Name
The name Aromobates comes from the Latin aroma, meaning "good smell."[3] The smell of the type species, Aromobates nocturnus, is like the smell of a skunk.[4][5]
Bodies
Aromobates are small to medium-sized frogs that have colors that make them hard to see. They have strong bodies and webbed skin on their back feet. For example, the small Aromobates meridensis and Aromobates walterarpi are around 3 cm (1.2 in) from nose to rear end and have webbed back feet, and the big Aromobates nocturnus (up to 62 mm (2.4 in) in females) also have webbed back feet.[5]
Species
There are 18 species,[2] many of them endangered:[6]
- Aromobates alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1903) (Possibly Extinct)
- Aromobates cannatellai Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012
- Aromobates capurinensis (Péfaur, 1993)
- Aromobates duranti (Péfaur, 1985) (Critically Endangered)
- Aromobates ericksonae Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012
- Aromobates haydeeae (Rivero, 1978) (Possibly Extinct)
- Aromobates leopardalis (Rivero, 1978) (Possibly Extinct)
- Aromobates mayorgai (Rivero, 1980) (Endangered)
- Aromobates meridensis (Dole and Durant, 1972) (Critically Endangered)
- Aromobates molinarii (La Marca, 1985) (Critically Endangered)
- Aromobates nocturnus Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991 (Critically Endangered)
- Aromobates ornatissimus Barrio-Amorós, Rivero, and Santos, 2011
- Aromobates orostoma (Rivero, 1978) (Critically Endangered)
- Aromobates saltuensis (Rivero, 1980) (Endangered)
- Aromobates serranus (Péfaur, 1985) (Possibly Extinct)
- Aromobates tokuko Rojas-Runjaic, Infante-Rivero, and Barrio-Amorós, 2011
- Aromobates walterarpi La Marca and Otero-López, 2012
- Aromobates zippeli Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012
References
- ↑ Grant, T.; Frost, D. R.; Caldwell, J. P.; Gagliardo, R.; Haddad, C. F. B.; Kok, P. J. R.; Means, D. B.; Noonan, B. P.; Schargel, W. E. & Wheeler, W. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia, Athesphatanura, Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:psodfa]2.0.co;2. hdl:2246/5803. S2CID 82263880.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Aromobates Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ↑ "aroma". Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper.
- ↑ F. Harvey Pough; et al. (2004). Herpetology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. p. 92. ISBN 0-13-100849-8.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. p. 487.
- ↑ IUCN (2014). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>". Retrieved 15 August 2014.