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Corroboree frogs (/ k ə ˈ r ɒ b ə r i / kuh-ROB-uh-ree) comprise two species of frog native to the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales in Australia. Both species are small, poisonous ground-dwelling frogs. The two species are the southern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) and the northern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi ...
Dendrobatidae Poison Dart Frogs lipophilic alkaloid toxins: allopumiliotoxin 267A, batrachotoxin, epibatidine, histrionicotoxin, pumiliotoxin 251D: humid, tropical environments of Central and South America Mantella genus Golden frogs or Malagasy poison frogs alkaloid toxins Madagascar northern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi)
Species of puffer fish (the family Tetraodontidae) are the most poisonous in the world, and the second most poisonous vertebrate after the golden dart frog.The active substance, tetrodotoxin, found in the internal organs and sometimes also the skin, paralyzes the diaphragm muscles of human victims, who can die from suffocation.
The hooded pitohui.The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.
The southern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) is a species of Australian ground frog native to southeastern Australia. [2] [3]The species was described in 1953 by Fulbright research scholar John A. Moore from a specimen collected at Towong Hill Station at Corryong, Victoria, and sent to the Australian Museum.
A deadly pufferfish hospitalized an entire family who unintentionally consumed the poisonous fish for dinner. According to Brazil's Globo News, eleven members of the Souza family ate a pufferfish ...
Oxapampa poison frog (Ameerega planipaleae) Collins' poison frog (Andinobates abditus) (possibly extinct) Colostethus jacobuspetersi; South American rocket frog (Hyloxalus anthracinus) Hyloxalus delatorreae; Edwards' rocket frog (Hyloxalus edwardsi) (possibly extinct) Ruiz's rocket frog (Hyloxalus ruizi) (possibly extinct)
A Corroboree frog ...that both species ... that the male polkadot poison frog guards the eggs laid by the female ... are threatened by the introduction of exotic fish ...