Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Dendrobatidae > Ranitomeya > Ranitomeya variabilisRanitomeya variabilis (Zimmermann's Poison Frog)Synonyms: Dendrobates variabilis The splash-back poison frog (Ranitomeya variabilis), also referred to as the variable poison frog or Zimmermann's poison frog, is a small species of poison dart frog known from the upper Huallaga River drainage of San Martín Region, Peru. It is semi-arboreal, living in the forest understory and canopy. Like other poison frogs, it contains alkaloid poisons. The mimic poison frog is a Müllerian mimic of this species. The species was formerly considered to be synonym of Ranitomeya ventrimaculata. |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Litter Size [1] | 8 | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 0.827 inches (2.1 cm) |
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Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Peruvian Yungas |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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