Ameerega picta

The spot-legged poison frog or spot-legged poison arrow frog (Ameerega picta) is a frog. It lives in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Scientists think it could also live in Paraguay.

Ameerega picta
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Genus:	Ameerega
Species:	A. picta
Binomial name
Ameerega picta (Tschudi, 1838)
Synonyms
Hylaplesia picta Tschudi, 1838 Dendrobates pictus Duméril and Bibron, 1841 Dendrobates eucnemis Steindachner, 1864 Dendrobates pictus pictus Lutz, 1952 Dendrobates pictus eucnemis Lutz, 1952 Dendrobates pictus guayanensis Heatwole, Solano, and Heatwole, 1965 Phyllobates pictus Silverstone, 1975 Dendrobates pictus Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978 Epipedobates pictus Myers, 1987 Epipedobates guayanensis Barrio-Amorós, 2004 Epipedobates yungicola Lötters, Schmitz, and Reichle, 2005 Ameerega yungicola Frost, 2006 Ameerega picta Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006

Home

People see this frog on dead leaves on the ground and dead branches on the ground. It lives in tropical forests in low places and up into mountains. It can also live at the edges of forests and in places that people have changed. It can live in forests that have never been cut down and forests that were cut down and are growing back. Scientists saw the frog between 200 and 2500 meters above sea level.

This frog lives in many protected places.

Young

The female frog lays her eggs on the ground. After the eggs hatch, the male frogs carry the tadpoles to water.

Danger

Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place that has so many good places for frogs to live in it. Humans do change the places where the frogs live to make farms and places for animals to eat grass. People also catch this frog to sell as a pet.

First paper

• Avila-Pires; et al. (2010). "A subspecies, guayanensis, has been recorded from Brazil, and the authors of the account suggest that it be raised to full species level". Bol. Mus. Para. Emilio Goeldi. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author1= (help)