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Golden Poison dart frog Phyllobates terribilis🐸

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SpeciesAnuraDendrobatidae
Amphibians

🐸Golden poison frog

Phyllobates terribilis Myers, Daly & Malkin, 1978

The golden poison frog, also known as the golden dart frog or golden poison arrow frog, is a poison dart frog endemic from the rainforests of Colombia. The golden poison frog has become endangered due to habitat destruction within its naturally limited range. Despite its small size, this frog is considered to be the most poisonous extant animal species on the planet.

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Measurements
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Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
0.04 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
8 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Golden poison frog

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body length
0.04 m
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
8 yearsmaximum recorded
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Diet
arthropods
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyDendrobatidae
  6. ›genusPhyllobates
  7. ›speciesPhyllobates terribilis
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. subfamilyDendrobatinae
  4. genusPhyllobates
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  11. suborderNeobatrachia
  12. familyDendrobatidae
  13. subfamilyDendrobatinae
  14. genusPhyllobates
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Closest relative on this site
🐸 Cane toad — last shared an ancestor ≈ 117 million years ago.
In other languages
Phyllobates terribilis (es), Phyllobates terribilis (ca), pralesnička strašná (cs), Schrecklicher Pfeilgiftfrosch (de), قورباغه نیزه سمی طلایی (fa), kultanuoli (fi) … and 19 more languages

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