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The effect of the increased use of kambo rituals, and trafficking of the frogs and their secretions, may have an effect on the population of Phyllomedusa bicolor in its natural habitats: the forests of Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, the Guianas, Colombia, and Venezuela. [14] Phyllomedusa bicolor is not considered an endangered species by the IUCN. [27]
Phyllomedusa bicolor, the giant leaf frog, bicolor tree-frog, giant monkey frog, [2] or waxy-monkey treefrog, [3] is a species of leaf frog.It can be found in the Amazon basin of Brazil, Colombia (), Bolivia, and Peru, and can also be found in the Guianan Region of Venezuela and the Guianas, and in Cerrado of the state of Maranhão in Brazil.
Some indigenous groups from South America use the secretions of Phyllomedusa bicolor, the giant leaf frog, in shamanic hunting practices and as a traditional medicine ritual known as Kambo cleanse. The substance intoxicates those who ingest it, and hunters believe it causes them to temporarily improve their sensorial capacities.
Kambo (or sapo) Phyllomedusa bicolor: Secretion: Opioid peptides (deltorphin, deltorphin I, deltorphin II and dermorphin). [118] [119] [120] Depressant: Increasing popularity in cleansing rituals and depression treatment. [121] [122] [123]
Kambo may refer to: Kambo, a village in Moss municipality, Norway; The Kambo (Kamboj, Kamboh), an ethnic group inhabiting the Punjab region of India and Pakistan; Kambo, the poisonous secretions of kambô (Phyllomedusa bicolor), a species of hylid frog native to Amazonia
Several of the genera within the Leptodactylidae lay their eggs in foam nests. These can be in crevices, on the surface of water, or on forest floors. These foam nests are some of the most varied among frogs. When eggs hatch in nests on the forest floor, the tadpoles remain within the nest, without eating, until metamorphosis.
Genus Microbatrachella (monotypic) – micro frog; Genus Natalobatrachus (monotypic) Genus Nothophryne (5 species) – mongrel frogs; Genus Poyntonia (monotypic) Genus Strongylopus (10 species) Genus Tomopterna (16 species) Subfamily Pyxicephalinae [5] Genus Aubria (2 species) – Masako fishing frog, brown ball frog
Limnonectes is a genus of fork-tongued frogs of 91 known species, but new ones are still being described occasionally. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are collectively known as fanged frogs because they tend to have unusually large teeth, which are small or absent in other frogs.