Colostethus

Colostethus is a group of poison dart frogs. They live in Central and South America, from Panama to Colombia, to Ecuador, to northern Peru. People call them rocket frogs in English,^[1] but frogs not in Colostethus have this name too.^[2]

Colostethus
Colostethus pratti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Genus:	Colostethus Cope, 1866
Diversity
12 species (see text)
Synonyms
Prostherapis Cope, 1868

Groups

In 2006, scientists said they had put too many species in Colostethus, 138. They looked at the genuses again and learned that many of these frogs were not alike enough to be in the same genus.^[3] They put some of these frogs in Aromobatidae (e..g., Anomaloglossus) and others to Hyloxalus and Silverstoneia.^[3] Some scientists think that some of the frogs in Colostethus should be in Ameerega instead.^[1]

Bodies

The skin of the frog's back is brown in color. There are bumps near the rear end. The frogs have light colored stripes. Adult male frogs' third front toes are big.^[3]

Species

There are 12 species in this genus:^[1]

• Colostethus agilis Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1985
• Colostethus furviventris Rivero and Serna, 1991
• Colostethus imbricolus Silverstone, 1975
• Colostethus inguinalis (Cope, 1868)
• Colostethus jacobuspetersi Rivero, 1991
• Colostethus latinasus (Cope, 1863)
• Colostethus lynchi Grant, 1998
• Colostethus mertensi (Cochran and Goin, 1964)
• Colostethus panamansis (Dunn, 1933)
• Colostethus pratti (Boulenger, 1899)
• Colostethus thorntoni (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
• Colostethus ucumari Grant, 2007