Allobates

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dendrobatoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura Superfamilia: Dendrobatoidea

Familia: Aromobatidae
Subfamilia: Allobatinae
Genus: Allobates
Species (63): A. albiventris – A. algorei – A. amissibilis – A. bacurau – A. bromelicola – A. brunneus – A. caeruleodactylus – A. caldwellae – A. carajas – A. caribe – A. chalcopis – A. conspicuus – A. crombiei – A. femoralis – A. flaviventris – A. fratisenescus – A. fuscellus – A. gasconi – A. goianus – A. granti – A. grillicantus – A. grillisimilis – A. hodli – A. humilis – A. ignotus – A. insperatus – A. juami – A. juanii – A. kamilae – A. kingsburyi – A. liniaureum – A. magnussoni – A. mandelorum – A. marchesianus – A. masniger – A. mcdiarmidi – A. melanolaemus – A. myersi – A. nidicola – A. niputidea – A. nunciatus – A. ornatus – A. pacaas – A. paleci – A. paleovarzensis – A. peruvianus – A. pittieri – A. ranoides – A. ripicolus – A. sanmartini – A. sieggreenae – A. subfolionidificans – A. sumtuosus – A. talamancae – A. tapajos – A. tinae – A. trilineatus – A. undulatus – A. vanzolinius – A. velocicantus – A. vicinus – A. wayuu – A. zaparo

Name

Allobates Zimmermann & Zimmermann, 1988: 136

Type species: Prostherapis femoralis Boulenger, 1884, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Zimmermann, H. & Zimmermann, E. 1988. Etho-Taxonomie und zoogeographische Artengruppenbildung bei Pfeilgiftfroschen (Anura: Dendrobatidae). Salamandra 24(2/3): 125–160. PDF Reference page.

Additional references

Myers, C.W., Paolillo-O., A. & Daly, J.W. 1991. Discovery of a defensively malodorous and nocturnal frog in the family Dendrobatidae: Phylogenetic significance of a new genus and species from Venezuelan Andes. American Museum Novitates 3002: 1–33. hdl: 2246/5084 Reference page.
Clough, M. & Summers, K. 2000. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the poison frogs: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70(3): 515–540. DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1999.0418 Reference page.
Vences, M., Kosuch, J., Boistel, R., Haddad, C.F.B., La Marca, E. & Lötters, S. 2003. Convergent evolution of aposematic coloration in Neotropical poison frogs: a molecular phylogenetic perspective. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 3(3): 215–226. DOI: 10.1078/1439-6092-00076 Reference page.
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. & 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. hdl: 2246/5803 Reference page.
Barrio-Amorós, C.L. & J.C. Santos, 2009. Description of a new Allobates (Anura, Dendrobatidae) from the eastern Andean piedmont, Venezuela. Phyllomedusa 8(2): 89–104. PDF
Simões, P.I., Lima, A.P. & Farias, I.P. 2010. The description of a cryptic species related to the pan-Amazonian frog Allobates femoralis (Boulenger 1883) (Anura: Aromobatidae). Zootaxa 2406(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2406.1.1 Reference page.
Lima, A.P., Caldwell, J.P., Biavati, G. & Montanarin, A. 2010. A new species of Allobates (Anura: Aromobatidae) from Paleovárzea Forest in Amazonas, Brazil. Zootaxa 2337(1): 1–17. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2337.1.1 Reference page.
Anganoy-Criollo, M. 2012. A new species of Allobates (Anura, Dendrobatidae) from the western flank of the Serranía de Perijá, Colombia. Zootaxa 3308(1): 49–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3308.1.2 Reference page.
Kok, P.J.R., Hölting, M. & Ernst, R. 2013. A third microendemic to the Iwokrama Mountains of central Guyana: a new “cryptic” species of Allobates Zimmerman and Zimmerman, 1988 (Anura: Aromobatidae). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 13: 621–638. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-013-0144-4 Reference page.
Simões, P.I., Sturaro, M.J., Peloso, P.L.V. & Lima, A.P. 2013. A new diminutive species of Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988 (Anura, Aromobatidae) from the northwestern Rio Madeira - Rio Tapajós interfluve, Amazonas, Brazil. Zootaxa 3609(3): 251–273. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.3.1 Reference page.
Melo-Sampaio, P.R., Souza, M.B. & Peloso, P.L.V. 2013. A new, riparian, species of Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988 (Anura: Aromobatidae) from southwestern Amazonia. Zootaxa 3716(3): 336–348. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3716.3.2 Reference page.
Lima, A.P., Simões, I.S. & Kaefer, I.L. 2014. A new species of Allobates (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the Tapajós River basin, Pará State, Brazil. Zootaxa 3889(3): 355–387. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.2 Reference page.
Lima, A.P., Simões, P.I. & Kaefer, I.L. 2015. A new species of Allobates (Anura: Aromobatidae) from Parque Nacional da Amazônia, Pará State, Brazil. Zootaxa 3980(4): 501–525. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.3 Reference page.
Simões, P.I. 2016. A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Madeira River basin with a small geographic range. Zootaxa 4083(4): 501–525. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4083.4.3 Reference page.
Forti, L.R., da Silva, T.R.A. & Toledo, L.F. 2017. The acoustic repertoire of the Atlantic Forest Rocket Frog and its consequences for taxonomy and conservation (Allobates, Aromobatidae). ZooKeys 692: 141–153. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.692.12187 Reference page.
Grant, T., Rada, M., Anganoy-Criollo, M., Batista, A., Dias, P.H.S., Jeckel, A.M., Machado, D.J. & Rueda-Almonacid, J.V. 2017. Phylogenetic Systematics of Dart-Poison Frogs and Their Relatives Revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea). South American Journal of Herpetology 12(s1): S1–S90. DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-17-00017.1 Reference page.
Melo-Sampaio, P.R., Oliveira, R.M. & Prates, I. 2018. A New Nurse Frog from Brazil (Aromobatidae: Allobates), with Data on the Distribution and Phenotypic Variation of Western Amazonian Species. South American Journal of Herpetology 13(2): 131–149. DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-17-00098.1 Reference page.
Simões, P.I., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M. & Castroviejo-Fisher, S. 2018. A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Juami River basin, northwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Zootaxa 4387(1): 109–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.1.5 Reference page.
Moraes, L.J.C.L., Pavan, D. & Lima, A.P. 2019. A new nurse frog of Allobates masniger-nidicola complex (Anura, Aromobatidae) from the east bank of Tapajós River, eastern Amazonia. Zootaxa 4648(3): 401–434. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.1. Reference page.
Simões, P.I., Rojas, D. & Lima, A.P. 2019. A name for the nurse-frog (Allobates, Aromobatidae) of Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Eastern Brazilian Amazonia. Zootaxa 4550(1): 71–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.3 Reference page.
Lima, A.P., Ferrão, M. & Silva, D.L. 2020. Not as widespread as thought: Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic diversity in the Amazonian nurse frog Allobates tinae Melo-Sampaio, Oliveira and Prates, 2018 and description of a new species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58(4): 1173–1194. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12406 Reference page.
Melo-Sampaio, P.R., Prates, I., Peloso, P.L.V., Recoder, R.S., Dal Vechio, F., Marques-Souza, S. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2020. A new nurse frog from southwestern Amazonian highlands, with notes on the phylogenetic affinities of Allobates alessandroi (Aromobatidae). Journal of Natural History 54(1–4): 43–62. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1727972 Reference page.
Réjaud, A., Rodrigues, M.T., Crawford, A.J., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Jaramillo-Martínez, A.F., Chaparro, J.C., Glaw, F., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Moravec, J., De la Riva, I.J., Pérez-Peña, P.E., Lima, A.P., Werneck, F.P., Hrbek, T., Ron, S.R., Ernst, R., Kok, P.J.R., Driskell, A., Chave, J. & Fouquet, A. 2020. Historical biogeography identifies a possible role of Miocene wetlands in the diversification of the Amazonian rocket frogs (Aromobatidae: Allobates). Journal of Biogeography 47(11): 2472–2482. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13937 Reference page.
Souza, J.R.D., Ferrão, M., Hanken, J. & Lima, A.P. 2020. A new nurse frog (Anura: Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call. PeerJ 8: e9979. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9979 Reference page.
Moraes, L.J.C.L. & Lima, A.P. 2021. A new nurse frog (Allobates, Aromobatidae) with a cricket-like advertisement call from eastern Amazonia. Herpetologica 77(2): 146–163. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-20-00010.1 Reference page.
Gagliardi-Urrutia, L.A.G., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Jaramillo-Martínez, A.F., Solís, S. & Simões, P.I. 2021. A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Amazonian forest of Loreto, Peru. Zootaxa 5026(3): 375–404. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.3.3 Reference page.
Ferrão, M., Hanken, J. & Lima, A.P. 2022. A new nurse frog of the Allobates tapajos species complex (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the upper Madeira River, Brazilian Amazonia. PeerJ 10: e13751. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13751 Reference page.
Silva, L.A. da, Marques, R., Folly, H., Santana, D.J. 2022. A new Amazonian species of Allobates Zimmermann & Zimmermann, 1988 (Aromobatidae) with a trilled advertisement call. PeerJ 10: e13026. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13026 Reference page.
Fouquet, A., Ferrão, M. & Jairam, R. 2023. Two new species of Allobates of the trilineatus clade (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the Eastern Guiana Shield. Zootaxa 5297(4): 533–561. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.4 Reference page.
Souza, J.R.D., Ferrão, M., Kaefer, I.L., Cunha-Machado, A.S., Melo-Sampaio, P.R., Hanken, J. & Lima, A.P. 2023. A new pale-ventered Nurse Frog (Aromobatidae: Allobates) from southwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 647–675. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e103534 Reference page.
Jaramillo-Martínez, A.F., Vilà, C., Guayasamin, J.M., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Simões, P.I., Chaparro, J.C., Aguilar-Manihuari, R. & Castroviejo-Fisher, S. 2025. Genetic and phenotypic evidence reveals a complex evolutionary history within the Amazonian Allobates juami/insperatus clade (Anura, Aromobatidae), with the description of a new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 471: 1–83. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.471.1.1 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Nurse Frogs