Colostethus

Colostethus
	Rainforest Rocket Frog, Colostethus flotator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Amphibia
Subclass:	Lissamphibia
Order:	Anura
Suborder:	Neobatrachia
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Subfamily:	Colostethinae
Genus:	Colostethus; Cope, 1866
Species
	Over 80, See text.

Colostethus is a large genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America. There are currently over eighty species in this genus. Unlike most members of the family Dendrobatidae, members of the genus Colostethus are not usually brightly colored or poisonous. Colostethus is paraphyletic as presently delimited, because although all species have a common ancestor, not all species descended from that ancestor are included in Colostethus. Current evolutionary studies will likely result in splitting of Colostethus into segregate genera in the near future.

Since a 2006 review, Hyloxalus has absorbed many of the species, while Silverstoneia aggregated three.^[1]

Species

Colostethus agilis
Colostethus alacris
Colostethus alagoanus
Colostethus alessandroi
Colostethus atopoglossus
Colostethus ayarzaguenai
Colostethus baeobatrachus
Colostethus beebei
Colostethus betancuri
Colostethus brachistriatus
Colostethus breviquartus
Colostethus breweri
Colostethus bromelicola
Colostethus brunneus
Colostethus cacerensis
Colostethus caeruleodactylus
Colostethus capixaba
Colostethus capurinensis
Colostethus caribe
Colostethus carioca
Colostethus chalcopis
Colostethus degranvillei
Colostethus delatorreae
Colostethus dunni
Colostethus dysprosium
Colostethus edwardsi
Colostethus flotator, Rainforest Rocket Frog
Colostethus fraterdanieli
Colostethus fugax
Colostethus fuliginosus
Colostethus furviventris
Colostethus goianus
Colostethus granti
Colostethus guanayensis
Colostethus humilis
Colostethus imbricolus
Colostethus infraguttatus
Colostethus inguinalis
Colostethus jacobuspetersi
Colostethus juanii
Colostethus kaiei

Silverstoneia

Moved to Silverstoneia genus by Grant et al., 2006^[2]

Silverstoneia erasmios ↔ C. erasmios
Silverstoneia flotator ↔ C. flotator
Silverstoneia nubicola ↔ C. nubicola

Notes

^ 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., and Wheeler, W. C. (2006). Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 299, 1-262 (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf)
^ 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., and Wheeler, W. C. (2006). Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 299, 1-262 (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf)

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[1] 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., and Wheeler, W. C. (2006). Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 299, 1-262 (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf)

[2] 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., and Wheeler, W. C. (2006). Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 299, 1-262 (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf)

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