Oreobates
Oreobates
Genus of amphibians
Oreobates is a genus of frogs in the family Strabomantidae.[1] Most species were formerly in the genus Ischnocnema, but were moved to this revalidated genus following a 2006 revision.[2] Its sister taxon is Lynchius.[1]
| Oreobates | |
|---|---|
| Oreobates quixensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Strabomantidae |
| Subfamily: | Holoadeninae |
| Genus: | Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 |
| Type species | |
| Oreobates quixensis Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 | |
| Diversity | |
| See text | |
| Synonyms | |
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These frogs are found in the lower slopes of the Andes into the upper Amazon Basin from Colombia south to northern Argentina and east into western Brazil.[1]
Frogs in the genus Oreobates are small to medium-sized with males measuring 20–44 mm (0.79–1.73 in) and females 25–63 mm (0.98–2.48 in) in snout–vent length. They are generally brownish in colour. Body is robust with a short snout. The toes lack discs and fingers have reduced or absent discs; there is no webbing.[3]
Species of the genus Oreobates lay terrestrial eggs that undergo direct development.[3]
The following species are recognised in the genus Oreobates:[1]
- Oreobates amarakaeri Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012
- Oreobates antrum Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Andrade, and Amaro, 2018
- Oreobates ayacucho (Lehr, 2007)
- Oreobates barituensis Vaira & Ferrari, 2008
- Oreobates berdemenos Pereyra, Cardozo, Baldo, and Baldo, 2014
- Oreobates chiquitanus Pansonato, Motta, Cacciali, Haddad, Strüssmann, and Jansen, 2020
- Oreobates choristolemma (Harvey and Sheehy, 2005)
- Oreobates colanensis Venegas, García Ayachi, Ormeño, Bullard, Catenazzi, and Motta, 2021
- Oreobates cruralis (Boulenger, 1902)
- Oreobates discoidalis (Peracca, 1895)
- Oreobates gemcare Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012
- Oreobates granulosus (Boulenger, 1903)
- Oreobates heterodactylus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)
- Oreobates ibischi (Reichle, Lötters, and De la Riva, 2001)
- Oreobates lehri (Padial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2007)
- Oreobates lundbergi (Lehr, 2005)
- Oreobates machiguenga Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012
- Oreobates madidi (Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, and De la Riva, 2005)
- Oreobates pereger (Lynch, 1975)
- Oreobates quixensis Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
- Oreobates remotus Teixeira, Amaro, Recoder, Sena, and Rodrigues, 2012
- Oreobates sanctaecrucis (Harvey and Keck, 1995)
- Oreobates sanderi (Padial, Reichle, and De la Riva, 2005)
- Oreobates saxatilis (Duellman, 1990)
- Oreobates yanucu Köhler and Padial, 2016
- Oreobates zongoensis (Reichle and Köhler, 1997)
- Frost, Darrel R. (2022). "Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- Caramaschi, Ulisses; Canedo, Clarrisa (2006). "Reassessment of the taxonomic status of the genera Ischnocnema Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 and Oreobates Jiménez-de-la-Espada, 1872, with notes on the synonymy of Leiuperus verrucosus Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 (Anura: Leptodactylidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1116: 43–54. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1116.1.3.
- Padial, José M.; Chaparro, Juan C.; De La Riva, Ignacio (2008). "Systematics of Oreobates and the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis species group (Amphibia, Anura), based on two mitochondrial DNA genes and external morphology". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152 (4): 737–773. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00372.x.