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Genus of amphibians
Leucostethus is a
genus of
frogs in the
family
Dendrobatidae , in the subfamily Colostethinae.
[1] The frogs are found in the western
Amazon rainforest .
[2]
The members of this genus are unique among the Colostethinae in that both males and females lack dark colouration on the
ventral part of their bodies. The genus is named combining the
Greek words leukos ('white') and stethos ('chest').
[3]
The following species are recognised in the genus 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)
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"ITIS Standard Report Page: Leucostethus" . www.itis.gov . Retrieved 2020-12-23 .
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a
b
"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 .