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