A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae) 3083
Brown, Jason L.
Twomey, Evan
Amézquita, Adolfo
Souza, Moisés Barbosa De
Caldwell, Jana- Lee P.
Lötters, Stefan
May, Rudolf Von
Melo-Sampaio, Paulo Roberto
Mejía-Vargas, Daniel
Perez-Peña, Pedro
Pepper, Mark
Poelman, Erik H.
Sanchez-Rodriguez, Manuel
Summers, Kyle
Zootaxa
2011
2011-10-28
3083
1
1
120
4RFBF
Summers
1999
[151,415,1013,1039]
Amphibia
Dendrobatidae
Ranitomeya
Animalia
Anura
77
78
Chordata
species
variabilis
Figs. 3, 4, 9, 14, 32 –37 Tables 1, 4 –6 A monophyletic assemblage of two species: Ranitomeya variabilis Zimmermann & Zimmermann 1988and R. amazonica Schulte 1999.
Definition and diagnosis. Medium to large adult size ( SVL 14 –21 mm); two prevalent dorsal patterns: large ovoid black spots on greenish dorsum or complete yellow to red dorsolateral stripes, middorsal stripe and oblique lateral stripes (note that occasionally these species possess ventrolateral stripes, or an intermediate between oblique lateral and ventrolateral stripes, suggesting this trait is a continuous character); large intestine of larvae entirely pigmented; LTRF 2(2)/3(1), oral disc emarginated; larvae gray, tadpoles cannibalistic on embryos and other tadpoles; eggs gray; neither males nor females territorial; promiscuous mating system with male parental care; females produce between 2 – 6 eggsper mating. Advertisement calls consist of short, regularly spaced buzz calls, notes 0.16 –0.44 sec in length, repeated at 24 –70 notes per minute ( Fig. 14).
SVL
77
78
LTRF 2
6
6