Oreobates

Oreobates quixensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brachycephaloidea

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

Familia: Craugastoridae
Subfamilia: Holoadeninae
Genus: Oreobates
Species (26): O. amarakaeri – O. antrum – O. ayacucho – O. barituensis – O. berdemenos – O. chiquitanus – O. choristolemma – O. colanensis – O. cruralis – O. discoidalis – O. gemcare – O. granulosus – O. heterodactylus – O. ibischi – O. lehri – O. lundbergi – O. machiguenga – O. madidi – O. pereger – O. quixensis – O. remotus – O. sanctaecrucis – O. sanderi – O. saxatilis – O. yanucu – O. zongoensis

Name

Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872: 86

• Type species: Oreobates quixensis Jiménez de la Espada, 1872, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Teletrema Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937: 67
  • Type species: Teletrema heterodactylum Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Jiménez de la Espada, E. 1872. Nuevos batrácios Americanos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1: 85–88. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Padial J.M., Chaparro J.C., Castroviejo-Fisher S., Guayasamin J.M., Lehr E., Delgado A.J., Vaira M., Teixeira Jr. M., Aguayo R., De La Riva I. 2012. A revision of species diversity in the Neotropical genus Oreobates (Anura: Strabomantidae), with the description of three new species from the Amazonian slopes of the Andes. American Museum Novitates 3752: 1–55. DOI: 10.1206/3752.2 hdl: 2246/6321
• Texeira Jr., M., Amaro, R.C., Recoder, R.S., Sena, M.A. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2012. A relict new species of Oreobates (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the seasonally dry tropical forests of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and its implication to the biogeography of the genus and that of South American dry forests. Zootaxa 3158: 37–52. Preview. Reference page. 
• Pereyra, M.O., Cardozo, D.E., Baldo, J. & Baldo, D. 2014. Description and phylogenetic position of a new species of Oreobates (Anura: Craugastoridae) from Northwestern Argentina. Herpetologica 70(2): 211–227. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-13-00072 Reference page. 
• Köhler, J. & Padial, J.M. 2016. Description and phylogenetic position of a new (singleton) species of Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Yungas of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Annals of Carnegie Museum 84(1): 23–38. DOI: 10.2992/007.084.0104 Reference page. 
• Vaz-Silva, W., Maciel, N.M., Andrade, S.P. & Amaro, R.C. 2018. A new cryptic species of Oreobates (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the seasonally dry tropical forest of central Brazil. Zootaxa 4441(1): 89–108. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.5 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Big-headed Frogs

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