World Species : Ameerega picta (Spot-legged Poison Frog)

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Ameerega picta (Spot-legged Poison Frog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The spot-legged poison frog or sapito pintado (Ameerega picta; formerly Epipedobates picta) is a species of dendrobatid frog found in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela. Its habitat includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, especially freshwater swamp forests.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 5.44

EDGE Score: 1.86

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Attributes

Diet ^[1]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)

Litter Size ^[1]	20
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Nocturnal ^[1]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	0.961 inches (2.44 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Bolivian Yungas	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Caqueta moist forests	Brazil, Columbia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Cordillera Oriental montane forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Estacion Biologica Beni Biosphere Reserve	VI	335178	Bolivia
Madidi National Park	II	3194501	Bolivia
Manú National Park	II	4213523	Cusco, Peru
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park	II	4006523	Bolivia
Reserva Cuzco Amazonico			Peru

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Cerrado	Brazil	No

Consumers

Parasitized by
Cosmocerca parva	^[2]
Oswaldocruzia lopezi <Unverified Name>	^[2]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ ²Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

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