Excidobates Explained

Excidobates is a genus of poison dart frogs endemic to the Marañón River drainage in Peru and Ecuador, South America. At one time members of this genus were classified as Dendrobates. A characteristic of this genus is the presence of pale, ovoid spots on the under surface of the thighs.^[1]

Species

The following species are included in the genus:^{[2] [3]}

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Excidobates captivus (Myers, 1982)	Santiago poison frog	Peru and Ecuador
	Excidobates condor Almendáriz, Ron, and Brito M., 2012	Cóndor poison frog	Ecuador
	Excidobates mysteriosus (Myers, 1982)	Marañón poison frog	Peru

Notes and References

1. http://www.dendrobates.org/excidobates.html Excidobates
2. Web site: Excitobates Twomey and Brown, 2008 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2017 . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History . 26 September 2017 .
3. Web site: Dendrobatidae . 2014 . AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application] . Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb . 26 September 2017.