Epipedobates espinosai

The Darwin-Wallace poison frog, espinosa poison frog, turquoise-bellied poison frog, or turquoise-bellied poison arrow frog (Epipedobates espinosai) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador.

Epipedobates espinosai
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Genus:	Epipedobates
Species:	E. espinosai
Binomial name
Epipedobates espinosai (Funkhouser, 1956)
Synonyms
Phyllobates espinosai Funkhouser, 1956 Dendrobates espinosai Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978 Epipedobates espinosai Myers, 1987 Ameerega espinosai Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 Dendrobates boulengeri Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978 Epipedobates robnatali van der Horst and Woldhuis, 2006 Epipedobates darwinwallacei Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2011

Body

The adult male frog is 16.0–17.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 15.2–20.38 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is coffee color or dark red with blue and white marks. The sides of the body are black in color with some light blue.

Home

This frog lives near streams in forests. It is awake during the day. It hides under dead leaves on the ground. Scientists saw the frog between 858 and 1719 meters above sea level.

Young

Scientists have seen the tadpoles in streams and fast waterfalls. They have not seen the females laying eggs, but they have seen male frogs carrying tadpoles on their backs. Other frogs in Epipedobates lay eggs on the ground, and the male frogs carry the tadpoles to water.

Danger

People cut down many trees to make farms, to make places for animals to eat grass, and to get wood to build with.

Scientists think people might catch this frog to sell as a pet, but scientists do not know if this is a danger to the frog or not.