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Phyllobates bicolor, or more commonly referred to as the black-legged poison dart frog, is the world's second-most toxic dart frog. [2] Under the genus Phyllobates , this organism is often mistaken as Phyllobates terribilis , the golden poison frog, as both are morphologically similar.
The bicolor dart frog (Phyllobates bicolor) can range from yellow to orange, from black legs to green legs, to almost a uniform color of any of the aforementioned color morphs. P. aurotaenia specimens are yellow-banded or orange.
Phyllobates Duméril and Bibron, 1841: P. lugubris species group Phyllobates lugubris (Schmidt, 1857) Phyllobates vittatus (Cope, 1893) P. bicolor species group Phyllobates bicolor (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) Phyllobates aurotaenia (Boulenger, 1913) Phyllobates sp. aff. aurotaenia [5] Phyllobates terribilis (Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978 ...
The International Zoo Yearbook reported in 1977 that Stuttgart Zoo bred Phyllobates bicolor and Zoo Basel bred Dendrobates auratus. The first documented successful captive propagation of dendrobatids in the United States is a report by David Grow that describes breeding success for Dendrobates auratus at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita ...
Batrachotoxin was discovered by Fritz Märki and Bernhard Witkop, at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. Märki and Witkop separated the potent toxic alkaloids fraction from Phyllobates bicolor and determined its chemical properties in 1963. [4]
Phyllobates bicolor This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 00:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
P. bicolor may refer to: Phyllobates bicolor , the black-legged dart frog, a frog species found in the Chocó area in western Colombia Phyllomedusa bicolor , a giant leaf frog species found throughout the Amazon Rainforest
In South America, tribes such as the Noanamá Chocó and Emberá Chocó of western Colombia dip the tips of their blowgun darts in the poison found on the skin of three species of Phyllobates, a genus of poison dart frog. In northern Chocó Department, Phyllobates aurotaenia is used, while P. bicolor is used in Risaralda Department and southern ...