Hyloxalus

Hyloxalus
Cream-backed poison frog (H. subpunctatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Subfamily: Hyloxalinae
Genus: Hyloxalus
Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
Type species
Hyloxalus fuliginosus
Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
Species

63 species (see text)

Synonyms[1]

Phyllodromus Jiménez de la Espada, 1875
Hylixalus Boulenger, 1882
Cryptophyllobates Lötters, Jungfer, and Widmer, 2000

Hyloxalus is a genus of poison dart frogs, family Dendrobatidae.[1][2][3][4] The genus is distributed in Central and South America, from Panama south to Peru (along the Pacific coast), along with Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. They also inhabit the eastern foothills of the Andes in Bolivia to Venezuela, east to the upper Amazon Basin.[1]

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