Poison Dart Frogs
Dendrobatidae
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. These species are diurnal and often have brightly colored bodies. This bright coloration is correlated with the toxicity of the species, making them aposematic. Some species of the family Dendrobatidae exhibit extremely bright coloration along with high...
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 209 known species
Dendrobatinae
subfamilyDendrobatinae
Colostethinae
subfamilyColostethinae
Hyloxalinae
subfamilyHyloxalinae
Amazonas Rocket Frog
speciesColostethus poecilonotus
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 20980.