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Blue Poison Dart Frog

Amphibians

The blue poison dart frog, or blue poison arrow frog, is a poison dart frog found in forest islands surrounded by the Sipaliwini Savanna in southern Suriname, known to the indigenous Tiriyo people as okopipi. Its name azureus refers to its azure blue color. Once described as its own species, recent authorities generally treat it as a color morph or subspecies of Dendrobates tinctorius.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Insectivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 1
Relationship to People
Kept as Pets 1
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Appendix II 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Anura, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Blue Poison Dart Frog

In Biome

Savanna, Biomes
Source Wikidata: Blue Poison Dart Frog
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Suriname

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Blue Poison Dart Frog
Wikipedia
  • Description
    The glands of poisonous alkaloids located in the skin serve as a defence mechanism to potential predators.
  • Section: Behavior
    They spend most of their active hours hunting for insect prey, hopping in short leaps.
  • Section: Captive care; begins "In captivity, like most captive dart frogs, they"
    In captivity, like most captive dart frogs, they eat a staple diet of fruit flies, pinhead crickets, rice flour beetle larvae, isopods, and springtails.
  • Section: Feeding; begins "The blue poison dart frog feeds on a wide variet"
    The blue poison dart frog feeds on a wide variety of insect prey.
  • lead paragraph (habitat realm), EntityId 339112
    The blue poison dart frog or blue poison arrow frog (Dendrobates tinctorius "azureus") is a poison dart frog found in the "forest islands" surrounded by the Sipaliwini Savanna in southern Suriname.
  • Infobox: status
    LC
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2. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Dendrobates tinctorius
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 9978
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 9978
"appendix":"II","change_type":"+","effective_at":"1987-10-22","annotation":"[GENUS listing Dendrobates spp.] "
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Wikidata: Blue Poison Dart Frog
  • Child Taxon Of: Anura, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
  • In Biome: Savanna, Introduction
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