Adelphobates quinquevittatus
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Adelphobates quinquevittatus , also classified as Dendrobates quinquevittatus according to alternative taxonomy, is a frog through the family of the poison dart frog (Dendrobatidae).
features
Adelphobates quinquevittatus is one of the small poison dart frogs with a maximum body length of about 16 mm. The basic color of the animal is a glossy black lacquer with three white stripes on the top and two on the bottom. The legs are gray, greenish or orange with black spots. The variability within the species is very low.
distribution
The range of Adelphobates quinquevittatus is distributed in the border area of Brazil and Peru south of the Amazon . The terra typica of the first description was Salto de Jirau in the state of Rondônia , Brazil.
Way of life
Adelphobates quinquevittatus is diurnal. It lives mainly in the foliage of the ground or at low heights, it is only very rarely found in higher trees. It is an insect eater and feeds mainly on ants and termites .
During the mating season, the males call for the females; they cannot make calls. After the tadpoles hatch after 10 to 14 days, the mother transports them individually into small pools of water, for example in tree hollows ( Phytotelmata ) or nutshells, where they feed on insect larvae, other tadpoles and plant material.
Systematics
Adelphobates quinquevittatus was originally described as a species in the genus Dendrobates . The genus Adelphobates was created in 2006 by Grant et al. Introduced as part of a comprehensive revision of the poison dart frogs.
A. quinquevittatus was used as Dendrobates quinquevittatus for a long time as a collective name for different species and included different Dendrobates species from Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. After the identification of individual species, these were put together in a species complex and named Dendrobates quinquevittatus s. l. designated. In 1990 the species was re-described and thus clearly differentiated from other species; in the same publication A. castaneoticus (formerly D. castaneoticus ) was described for the first time and placed in the relationship of A. quinquevittatus and D. ventrimaculatus , today Ranitomeya ventrimaculata . The latter was differentiated from today's Adelphobates species by genetic studies in 2003 , at the same time A. galactonotus, previously suspected to be related to Dendrobates tinctorius , was added to the group.
Danger
Adelphobates quinquevittatus is classified as not endangered ("Least Concern") in the IUCN Red List because of its relatively wide distribution area and the assumed large population .
Individual evidence
- ↑ T. Grant, DR Frost, JP Caldwell, R. Gagliardo, CFB Haddad, PJR Kok, DB Means, BP Noonan, WE Schargel, WC Wheeler: Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia, Athesphatanura, Dendrobatidae) . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299, 2006.
- ^ JP Caldwell, CW Myers: A new poison frog from Amazonian Brazil, with further XX revision of the quinquevittatus Group of Dendrobates. American Museum Novitates 2988, 1990; Pages 1–21. Full text (PDF; 5.1 MB)
- ↑ M. Vences , J. Kosuch, R. Boistel, CFB Haddad, E. La Marca, S. Lötters, S. Veith, M. Veith: Convergent evolution of aposematic coloration in Neotropical poison frogs: a molecular phylogenetic perspective. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 3, 2003: pages 215-226. ( Full text ; PDF; 182 kB)
- ↑ Dendrobates quinquevittatus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2007. Posted by: Rodrigues, MT & Azevedo-Ramos, C., 2004. Retrieved on June 29 of 2008.
Web links
- T. Ostrowski, T. Mahn: Species description Adelphobates quinquevittatus. Status: June 2008.