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Ameerega picta
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2004Least Concern (LC)
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The spot-legged poison frog or sapito pintado (Ameerega picta;[1] 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.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Grant, T. et al., (2006). Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae) (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 299, 1–262
- ^ La Marca, E., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Silvano, D., Hoogmoed, M., De la Riva, I. & Reichle, S. 2004. Epipedobates pictus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.
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The spot-legged poison-arrow frog, Ameerega picta, is a common species of dendrobatid frog that occur in lowland humid and deciduous forests and up into montane forests on Amazonian slopes (to 1300 m asl in the Bolivian Andes). This small (about 2 cm (0.8 inch) snout-vent length) frog is widely spread across in eastern Bolivia, Peru, southwestern Brazil, Columbia, probably in Paraguay, and as an isolated Venezuelan population, however experts believe the name Ameerega picta is a composite that includes multiple species (Frost 2015; Kohler 2000; Haddad and Martins 1994; Caldwell and Myers 1990).
These terrestrial frogs inhabit leaf litter in primary and secondary forest and stream beds in open or moderately disturbed areas. Active during the day, spot-legged poison-arrow frogs hunt small arthropods. Males tend to make advertisement calls from perches above the ground, a high-pitched, one- or two-toned repeated call, which has been recorded and compared with closely related species. When calling, white spots on the males vocal sacks flash, perhaps giving visual cues to make them more noticeable to females (Kohler 2000). A wonderful video of this frog calling in its forest floor environment can be seen at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NPmDWGP8SOo.
Like most dendrobatid frogs, A. picta mate in the rainy season, and females lay clutches of eggs in pockets hidden in pockets under logs, branches, roots and leaves. After several weeks the larvae hatch from the eggs and males carry them on their back to nearby pools where the tadpoles complete their development in water (Kohler 2000; Hödl 1991).
More research is needed to resolve potential species boundaries within A. picta, especially since differentiation of species may not be assessed with morphological characters, but require understanding of habitat, vocalizations, and coloration of live frogs (rather than preserved specimen; Haddad and Martins 1994). Ameerega hahneli, A. braccatus and A. flavopictus are closely related species (Haddad and Martins 1994).
Caldwell, J. P., and C. W. Myers. 1990. A new poison frog from Amazonian Brazil, with further revision of the quinquevittatus group of Dendrobates. American Museum Novitates 2988: 1–21.
- Köhler, J. 2000. Amphibian diversity in Bolivia: a study with special reference to montane forest regions. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 48: 1–243.
- Frost, D.R. 2015. Ameerega picta. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 Retrieved August 15 2015 from http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dendrobatidae/Colostethinae/Ameerega/Ameerega-picta. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
- Haddad, C. F. B., and M. Martins. 1994. Four species of Brazilian poison frogs related to Epipedobates pictus (Dendrobatidae): Taxonomy and natural history. Herpetologica 50: 282–295.
- Hödl, W. 1991. Ameerega picta: calling behavior. AmphibiaWeb videos. Retrieved August 15 2015 from https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NPmDWGP8SOo.
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This taxon is known from the lowlands of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. There is an isolated population in Venezuela still attributed to this species. Its altitudinal range is from 200-1200 masl.
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Habitat and Ecology
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- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There is 1 barcode sequence available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is the sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
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