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An adult male of the poison frog Dendrobates sylvaticus.
This species is a nearly threatened dweller of the Chocoan rainforest of northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia. Its closest relatives are distributed in Central America, whose most-recent common ancestor dispersed over the sea from the Chocó during the formation on the Isthmus of Panamá approximately 2-3 million years ago. Dendrobates sylvaticus is commonly known as the "rana diablito" or the "little devil frog" because of its reddish-orange bright color, its loud strident call, and its significant skin alkaloid load (see Santos et al., e1000056).
Image Credit: Photograph by Juan C. Santos (University of Texas, Austin).
Citation: (2009) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 7(3) March 2009. PLoS Biol 7(3): ev07.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v07.i03
Published: March 31, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Santos et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This species is a nearly threatened dweller of the Chocoan rainforest of northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia. Its closest relatives are distributed in Central America, whose most-recent common ancestor dispersed over the sea from the Chocó during the formation on the Isthmus of Panamá approximately 2-3 million years ago. Dendrobates sylvaticus is commonly known as the "rana diablito" or the "little devil frog" because of its reddish-orange bright color, its loud strident call, and its significant skin alkaloid load (see Santos et al., e1000056).
Image Credit: Photograph by Juan C. Santos (University of Texas, Austin).