Andinobates virolinensis
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Andinobates virolinensis ( Synonym : Dendrobates virolinensis ) is a kind from the family of poison dart frogs , which are often referred to as poison dart frogs. The frog species is endemic to Colombia .
description
Andinobates virolinensis is a very small species of frog with a head-trunk length of no more than two centimeters.
distribution
Andinobates virolinensis occurs only in the Departamento de Santander and in the Departamento de Cundinamarca - that is the province around the Colombian capital Bogotá in the central Cordillera of the Andes .
Occurrence and way of life
Andinobates virolinensis is a ground dweller and lives in the cloud forest of the Andes. The females lay their eggs in the leaf litter , the males bring the tadpoles after they have hatched to a bromeliad funnel filled with water , where they develop further. The reproductive phase extends over the entire year. The diet consists of various arthropods , mainly mites , springtails , ants and insect larvae. This food choice hardly differs from that of other poison dart frogs.
Danger
Andinobates virolinensis is listed as endangered on the IUCN list of endangered species because the species is threatened with habitat loss . However, it is common in places in its area of distribution.
Andinobates virolinensis - like other poison dart frogs - can often be found in pet shops, although the collecting of poison dart frogs in the wild has been banned since 1985
Systematics and taxonomy
The species Andinobates virolinensis has been transferred several times to another genus as Minyobates virolinensis since it was first described by Ruíz-Carranza and Ramírez-Pinilla in 1992 . In 2000 it was incorporated into the genus Dendrobates , and in 2006 into the genus Ranitomeya . In 2011, Twomey, Brown and others separated the Ranitomeya species of the Andes under the generic name Andinobates from those of the Amazon basin, which remained in the genus Ranitomeya . Andinobates virolinensis has been a member of the dwarf tree climber group since 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Darrel R. Frost: Andinobates virolinensis (Ruiz-Carranza & Ramírez-Pinilla, 1992) , Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, accessed July 16, 2015.
- ↑ AR Acosta-Galvis: Andinobates virolinensis (Ruiz-Carranza & Ramírez-Pinilla, 1992) ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lista de los Anfibios de Colombia V.05.2015.0, accessed on July 16, 2015.
- ↑ a b c andinobates virolinensis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2015 Posted by: Adolfo Amézquita, Jose Vicente Rueda, 2004. Accessed July 16, 2015.
- ↑ Mercedes Valderrama-Vernaza, Víctor H. Serrano-Cardozo, Martha P. Ramírez-Pinilla: Reproductive Activity of the Andean Frog Ranitomeya virolinensis (Anura: Dendrobatidae) . In: Copeia . tape 2010 , no. 2 , January 1, 2010, ISSN 0045-8511 , p. 211-217 , doi : 10.1643 / CE-09-161 (English).
- ↑ M. Valderrama-Vernaza, MP Ramírez-Pinilla, VCH Serrano-Cardozo: Diet of the Andean frog Ranitomeya virolinensis (Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). In: Journal of Herpetology. 43, pp. 114-123, 2009 doi: 10.1670 / 07-247R1.1 .
- ↑ Jason L. Brown et al .: A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae). In: Zootaxa. 3083, pp. 1-120, 2011.
- ↑ S. Lötters, K.-H. Jungfer, FW Henkel, W. Schmidt: Poison Frogs. Biology, Species and Captive Maintenance. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-930612-62-8 , pp. 459-460.
literature
- Stefan Lötters, Karl-Heinz Jungfer, Friedrich-Wilhelm Henkel, Wolfgang Schmidt: poison dart frogs. Biology, husbandry, species. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-930612-52-9 .
Web links
- Darrel R. Frost: Andinobates virolinensis (Ruiz-Carranza & Ramírez-Pinilla, 1992) , Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, accessed July 16, 2015
- Andinobates virolinensis in the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN , 2015. Posted by: Adolfo Amézquita, Jose Vicente Rueda, 2004. Accessed July 16, 2015.