Dryadobates
| Dryadobates | |
|---|---|
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| Rio rocket frog (Dryadobates olfersioides) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Aromobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Allobatinae |
| Genus: | Dryadobates Grant, Lyra, Hofreiter, Preick, Barlow, Verdade, and Rodrigues, 2025[1] |
| Type species | |
| Dryadobates bokermanni Grant et al. 2025 | |
| Species | |
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7, see text | |
Deryadobates, with member species commonly referred to as the Atlantic Forest nurse frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Aromobatidae.[2] The species of this genus are endemic to the Atlantic coastal plain of Brazil. This genus was split from, and is currently maintained as a sister taxon of Allobates.[1][2]
Taxonomy
There are, as of 2026, seven members of this genus:[2]
- Dryadobates alagoanus (Bokermann, 1967)
- Dryadobates bokermanni Grant, Lyra, Hofreiter, Preick, Barlow, Verdade, and Rodrigues, 2025
- Dryadobates capixaba (Bokermann, 1967)
- Dryadobates carioca (Bokermann, 1967)
- †Dryadobates erythropus Grant and Pinheiro, 2025[3]
- Dryadobates lutzi Grant, Lyra, Hofreiter, Preick, Barlow, Verdade, and Rodrigues, 2025
- Rio rocket frog (Dryadobates olfersioides) (Lutz, 1925)
References
- 1 2 Grant, Taran; Lyra, Mariana L.; Hofreiter, Michael; Preick, Michaela; Barlow, Axel; Verdade, Vanessa K.; Rodrigues, Miguel Trefant (2025). "Museomics and the Systematics of the Atlantic Forest Nurse Frogs (Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae: Allobatinae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 472: 1–76. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.472.1.1.
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2024). "Dryadobates Grant, Lyra, Hofreiter, Preick, Barlow, Verdade, and Rodrigues, 2025". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History.
- ↑ Grant, Taran; Pinheiro, Paulo D.P. (2025). "A recently extinct new species of Dryadobates (Anura: Aromobatidae) from South Brazil: species description and implications for the historical distribution and recent extinction history of the clade" (PDF). Zootaxa. 5693 (4): 583–595. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5693.4.9.