Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog
Dendrobates auratus
Amphibia
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-15 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Central America
- Movement
- Hopping
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Toxins
- Status
- Uncommon
About
A jewel-bright Central American frog whose vivid green-and-black pattern warns predators of its skin toxins — toxins that vanish entirely in captive-bred frogs fed a non-arthropod diet. Males guard egg clutches on land and carry newly hatched tadpoles on their backs to individual pools of water.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA jelly-coated egg is laid in water and develops over days into an aquatic larva.
- 2.tadpoleA gilled tadpole swims and grazes on algae, slowly absorbing its tail and growing limbs.
- 3.juvenileA near-adult amphibian leaves the water with new legs and lungs, smaller than the mature form.
- 4.adultFully grown at adult size, breathing air.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Dendrobatidae
- Genus
- Dendrobates
- Species
- Dendrobates auratus