Mannophryne

Mannophryne
Mannophryne trinitatis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Aromobatidae
Subfamily: Aromobatinae
Genus: Mannophryne
La Marca, 1992
Type species
Colostethus yustizi
La Marca, 1989
Diversity
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Mannophryne is a group of frogs that live in Venezuela and in Trinidad and Tobago. People call them fingered poison frogs in English. Scientists made this group in 1992. Before that, they had put the frogs in the same group as Colostethus trinitatis.[1] All species have a dark throat collar.[2]

Species

Mannophryne has 20 species of frog in it,[1][3] many of which used to be in the genus Colostethus:[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Mannophryne La Marca, 1992". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. p. 487.
  3. "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.