Excidobates condor

species of amphibian

The Cóndor poison frog (Excidobates condor) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador.[2][3][1]

Excidobates condor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Genus: Excidobates
Species:
E. condor
Binomial name
Excidobates condor
(Myers, 1982)
Synonyms[2]
  • Dendrobates condor Myers, 1982
  • Ranitomeya captiva Bauer, 1988
  • Adelphobtes captivus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
  • Excidobates captivus Twomey and Brown, 2008

The adult male frog is about 18.5 - 20.6 mm long from nose to rear end and one adult female frog was 21.6 mm long. The skin of the frog's back and belly is black in color. The adult male frog's head is red in color from the mouth to the eyes. The female frog's head is black. The front legs are orange-brown in color. The bottoms of the front feet are orange in color. The bottoms of the back feet are black in color. The iris of the eye is black in color.[3]

Scientists named this frog condor after the place where they found it.[3]

This frog lives in trees in cloud forests on mountains, in forests that have never been cut down and forests that have been cut down and are growing back. People have seen this frog between 1770 and 2130 meters above sea level.[1]

Scientists believe the male frogs carry tadpoles on their backs. The male frogs take the tadpoles to water.[1] Scientists have seen the tadpoles swimming in water in bromeliad plants.[3]

Danger

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Scientists say this frog is in danger of dying out. This is because human beings change the places where it lives, especially to dig rocks and metals out of the ground and bad chemicals in the water.[1]

First paper

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  • Almendariz A; Ron SR; Brito J (2012). "Una especie nueva de rana venenosa de altura del genero Excidobates (Dendrobatoidea: Dendrobatidae) de la Cordillera del Condor". Pap. Avulsos Zool (Sao Paulo). 52: 387–399.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2019). "Cóndor Poison Frog: Excidobates condor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T78500583A98658744. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T78500583A98658744.en. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Excidobates condor (Myers, 1982)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Adrian Gutierrez; Alicia Hernandez; Thomas Phillips (May 5, 2022). Ann T. Chang (ed.). "Excidobates condor (Myers, 1982)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 12, 2024.