Spot-legged poison frog

Spot-legged poison frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Subfamily: Phyllobatinae
Genus: Ameerega
Species: A. picta
Binomial name
Ameerega picta
(Tschudi, 1838)
Synonyms

Dendrobates pictus ssp. guayanensis Heatwole, Solano & Heatwole, 1965

The spot-legged poison frog or sapito pintado (Ameerega picta;[1] formerly Epipedobates picta) is a species of dendrobatid frog found in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela. Its habitat includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, especially freshwater swamp forests.[2]

References

  1. Grant, T. et al., (2006). Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae) (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 299, 1262
  2. La Marca, E., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Silvano, D., Hoogmoed, M., De la Riva, I. & Reichle, S. 2004. Epipedobates pictus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.


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