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  2. Golden poison frog - Wikipedia

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    The golden poison frog is the largest species of the poison dart frog family, and can reach a weight of nearly 30 grams with a length of 6 cm as adults. [7] Females are typically larger than males. [4] The adults are brightly colored, while juvenile frogs have mostly black bodies with two golden-yellow stripes along their backs.

  3. Andinobates - Wikipedia

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    Scientific name Common name Distribution Andinobates abditus (Myers and Daly, 1976) Collins' poison frog. Ecuador Andinobates altobueyensis (Silverstone, 1975) Alto de Buey poison frog, golden poison-arrow frog, and golden poison frog: Chocó Department of western Colombia Andinobates bombetes (Myers and Daly, 1980) Cauca Poison Frog: Colombia.

  4. Phyllobates - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Poison dart frog - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Dendrobates - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Poisonous amphibian - Wikipedia

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    Scientific name Active agent Distribution 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

  8. Frogs are dying off at record rates, an ominous sign the 6th ...

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    Amphibians, particularly frogs, are among the hardest hit by an extinction crisis, as are insects and reptiles. Frogs are dying off at record rates, an ominous sign the 6th mass extinction is ...

  9. Phyllobates bicolor - Wikipedia

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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.