A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae) 3083
Author
Brown, Jason L.
Author
Twomey, Evan
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Amézquita, Adolfo
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Souza, Moisés Barbosa De
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Caldwell, Jana- Lee P.
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Lötters, Stefan
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May, Rudolf Von
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Melo-Sampaio, Paulo Roberto
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Mejía-Vargas, Daniel
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Perez-Peña, Pedro
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Pepper, Mark
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Poelman, Erik H.
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Sanchez-Rodriguez, Manuel
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Summers, Kyle
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Zootaxa
2011
2011-10-28
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3083.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3083.1.1
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Ranitomeya reticulata
species group
Figs. 3
,
4
,
9
,
15
–
18
Tables 1
,
4
–
6
A monophyletic assemblage of six species:
Ranitomeya reticulata
Boulenger 1884
“1883” with its junior synonym
R. ignea
Melin 1941
;
R. fantastica
Boulenger, 1884
“1883”;
R. ventrimaculata
Shreve 1935
;
R. uakarii
Brown, Schulte & Summers 2006
;
R. summersi
Brown, Twomey, Pepper & Sanchez-Rodriguez 2008
and
R. benedicta
Brown, Twomey, Pepper, & Sanchez-Rodriguez 2008
.
Definition and diagnosis.
Medium to large adult
SVL
(
17
–
21 mm
); black dorsum; typically orange to red dorsal patterning;
LTRF 2
(2)/3, oral disc emarginate; large intestine entirely pigmented; eggs dark; promiscuous mating system, male parental care; grayish tadpoles and embryos, females produce between 2
–
5 eggs
per mating. Vocalizations consist of a series of very short buzz-like notes (0.1
–
0.5 sec in length) given in rapid succession (104
–
200 notes per minute) (
Fig. 18
)
.