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Golden Poison dart frog Phyllobates terribilis🐸

Photo: Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesAnuraDendrobatidae
Amphibians

🐸Golden poison frog

Phyllobates terribilis Myers, Daly & Malkin, 1978

La rana dorada venenosa, rana dardo dorada o rana de dardo venenosa (Phyllobates terribilis) es un anfibio anuro de la familia Dendrobatidae, endémica de las selvas Colombianas. Este anfibio es actualmente considerado el vertebrado más venenoso del planeta.​ Su hábitat son las selvas húmedas de los departamentos del Cauca y Valle del Cauca en Colombia. El hábitat óptimo de la P. terribilis son los bosques lluviosos con alta tasa de lluvia (5000 mm o más), altitud entre 100 y 200 metros sobre el nivel del mar, temperaturas de al menos 26º y entre 80% y 90% de humedad.

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Measurements
3
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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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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