Dendrobates truncatus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Genus: | Dendrobates |
| Species: | D. truncatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dendrobates truncatus (Cope, 1861)
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The yellow-striped poison frog or yellow-striped poison arrow frog (Dendrobates truncatus) is a frog. It lives in Colombia.[2][3][1]
Home
This frog is awake during the day. It lives in wet and dry forests. People have also seen it on banana farms. People have seen this frog between 1000 and 1800 meters above sea level.[1][2]
Young
The female frog lays her eggs on the ground. When the eggs hatch, the adult frogs carry the tadpoles to water.[1]
The male frogs do not fight each other for good places but sometimes they do fight each other for other things. Female frogs fight each other for good male frogs. One male frog can mate with six females each year. The female frog lays eggs on dead leaves on the ground and the male frog watches them. He takes away fungus and moves the eggs around so that they all get enough air and put water on them. She lays 3-13 eggs at a time. The eggs hatch into tadpoles 13-16 days later. Then the male frog carries the tadpoles on his back. He takes them to a water-filled hole in a tree or to water that does not move. The tadpoles eat algae, insect young, animals that are too small to see, and other animals that are too small to see. Sometimes older tadpoles eat younger tadpoles. They become frogs 39-89 days after that. The frogs become adults when they are 6-15 months old. The fewer tadpoles the male frog has, the faster the tadpoles grow.[1]
Danger
Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in a large place and there are many of them. People used to catch this frog to sell as a pet, but now it is against the law to do that. It is very hard for people to raise this frog in buildings; people have to catch them in the forest. Sometimes these frogs die when people kill drug plant farms.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Yellow-striped Poison Frog: Dendrobates truncatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T55205A85886974. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T55205A85886974.en. Retrieved July 16, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Frost, Darrel R. "Dendrobates truncatus (Cope, 1861)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved July 16, 2024.
- ↑ Michelle S. Koo (January 14, 2024). Michelle S. Koo (ed.). "Dendrobates truncatus (Cope, 1861)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 16, 2024.
