Leucostethus
genus of amphibians
Leucostethus is a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae.[1] The frogs live in the western Amazon rainforest.[2]
| Leucostethus | |
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| Leucostethus fraterdanieli | |
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| holotype specimen of Leucostethus siapida | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Genus: | Leucostethus Grant, Rada et al., 2017 |
| Type species | |
| Leucostethus argyrogaster Morales & Schulte, 1993
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The frogs in this group are the only ones in the Colostethinae group that do not have dark colors on the belly. The name is from the Greek words leukos ("white") and stethos ("chest").[3]
These species are in Leucostethus:[2]
- Leucostethus alacris (Rivero and Granados-Díaz, 1990)
- Leucostethus argyrogaster (Morales and Schulte, 1993)
- Leucostethus bilsa Vigle et al., 2020
- Leucostethus brachistriatus (Rivero and Serna, 1986)
- Leucostethus dysprosium (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
- Leucostethus fraterdanieli (Silverstone, 1971)
- Leucostethus fugax (Morales and Schulte, 1993)
- Leucostethus jota Marín-Castaño et al., 2018
- Leucostethus ramirezi (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
- Leucostethus siapida Grant and Bolívar-García, 2021
- Leucostethus yaguara (Rivero and Serna, 1991)
References
change- ↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Leucostethus". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Leucostethus Grant, Rada, Anganoy-Criollo, Batista, Dias, Jeckel, Machado, and Rueda-Almonacid, 2017 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ↑ Grant, Taran; Rada, Marco; Anganoy-Criollo, Marvin; Batista, Abel; Dias, Pedro Henrique; Jeckel, Adriana Moriguchi; Machado, Denis Jacob; Rueda-Almonacid, José Vicente (September 2017). "Phylogenetic Systematics of Dart-Poison Frogs and Their Relatives Revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea)". South American Journal of Herpetology. 12 (s1): S43–S44. doi:10.2994/SAJH-D-17-00017.1. ISSN 1808-9798. S2CID 90981264.
