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Anthony's poison arrow frog

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Anthony's poison arrow frog is diurnal and terrestrial. Males are territorial. A clutch of 15 to 40 eggs is laid on the ground among leaf litter, and the male guards them till they hatch in about two weeks. He then carries the tadpoles on his back to a suitable water body where they develop (through
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Anthony's poison arrow frog has a snout-to-vent length of about 19 to 26 mm (0.7 to 1.0 in). The hind legs are short and robust. The dorsal surface is usually dark red or brown and there are several yellowish-white oblique stripes and a central longitudinal stripe.
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Anthony's poison arrow frog is known only from a number of locations in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru at heights of between 153 and 1,769 m (502 and 5,804 ft) above sea level.
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is the leaf litter on the floor of tropical dry forests, especially near streams.
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Epipedobates anthonyi

Leipzig Botanical Garden
Conservation status
Near Threatened
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Dendrobatidae
Epipedobates
Binomial name
Noble
Synonyms
species
poison dart frog
family
Dendrobatidae
endemic
Ecuador
Peru
specific name
Harold Elmer Anthony
American Museum of Natural History
metamorphosis
Epibatidine

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