Leucostethus

Leucostethus is a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae. The frogs live in the western Amazon rainforest.

The frogs in this group are the only ones in the Colostethinae group that do not have dark colors on the belly. The name is from the Greek words leukos ("white") and stethos ("chest").

These species are in Leucostethus:
 Leucostethus alacris (Rivero and Granados-Díaz, 1990)
 Leucostethus argyrogaster (Morales and Schulte, 1993)
 Leucostethus bilsa Vigle et al., 2020
 Leucostethus brachistriatus (Rivero and Serna, 1986)
 Leucostethus dysprosium (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
 Leucostethus fraterdanieli (Silverstone, 1971)
 Leucostethus fugax (Morales and Schulte, 1993)
 Leucostethus jota Marín-Castaño et al., 2018
 Leucostethus ramirezi (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
 Leucostethus siapida Grant and Bolívar-García, 2021
 Leucostethus yaguara (Rivero and Serna, 1991)

References

Category:Frogs of South America