What is Epipedobates?
{{Automatic taxobox | image = Epipedobates tricolor close.jpg | image_caption = ''Epipedobates tricolor'' | taxon = Epipedobates | authority = [[Charles William Myers|Myers]], 1987 | type_species = ''[[Epipedobates tricolor|Prostherapis tricolor]]'' | type_species_authority = [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1899 | diversity = 7 species (see [[#Species|text]]) }} '''''Epipedobates''''' is a [[genus|group]] of [[poison dart frog]]s. They live in northern [[South America]] (Colombia and Ecuador) west of the [[Andes]] Mountains and on the west sides of the mountains. People call them '''phantasmal poison frogs''' in English.<ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Dendrobatoidea/Dendrobatidae/Colostethinae/Epipedobates |title=''Epipedobates'' Myers, 1987 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2024 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=17 June 2024}}</ref> ==Taxonomy== Scientists made the group ''Epipedobates'' in 1987 because they wanted to take the big family [[Dendrobatidae]] and put it in smaller groups, especially species that had been in the genus ''[[Phyllobates]]''. In 2006, scientists moved many of the frogs in ''Epipedobates'' to ''[[Ameerega]]'', leaving five.<ref name=GrantEtal2006>{{cite journal |author1=Grant, T. |author2=Frost, D. R. |author3=Caldwell, J. P. |author4=Gagliardo, R. |author5=Haddad, C. F. B. |author6=Kok, P. J. R. |author7=Means, D. B. |author8=Noonan, B. P. |author9=Schargel, W. E. |author10=Wheeler, W. C. |name-list-style=amp |year=2006 |title=Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae) |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=299 |pages=1–262 |doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=82263880 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf |access-date=2008-09-22 |archive-date=2009-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.o