Excidobates
Sign in to saveExcidobates 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.
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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.
==Species== The following species are included in the genus: {| class="wikitable" |- ! 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 |- |120px || Excidobates mysteriosus (Myers, 1982) || Marañón poison frog ||Peru |- |}