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The green-and-black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus), also known as the green-and-black poison arrow frog and green poison frog (among others), [1] [3] is a brightly-colored member of the order Anura native to southern Central America and Colombia. This species has also been introduced to Oahu, Hawaii in an effort to lower mosquito numbers.
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.
Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central and South America. [2] These species are diurnal and often have brightly colored bodies.
Dendrobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America. It once contained numerous species, but most originally placed in this genus have been split off into other genera such as Adelphobates, Ameerega, Andinobates, Epipedobates, Excidobates, Oophaga, Phyllobates and Ranitomeya (essentially all the brightly marked poison dart frogs; i.e. excluding the duller genera in ...
Phyllobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America, from Nicaragua to Colombia. There are 3 different Colombian species of Phyllobates, considered highly toxic species due to the poison they contain in the wild. Phyllobates contains the most poisonous species of frog, the golden poison frog (P. terribilis).
Phyllobates samperi, [1] formerly known as sp. aff. aurotaenia is a new species of hypertoxic poison dart frog, once cited as the "red" form of Phyllobates aurotaenia.It resembles in size and to some extent in colouration to P. aurotaenia, but genetically it is the sister species of the "terrible" frog P. terribilis. [2]
When they searched her suitcase, police in Bogotá say they found 130 harlequin poison-dart frogs, which were stored in individual small film canisters.
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)