Kokoe poison dart frog

Phyllobates aurotaenia

Phyllobates aurotaenia is a species of the genus sheet Steiger ( Phyllobates ) and belongs to the family of the poison dart frog ( Dendrobatidae ) to.

Occurrence

This frog lives in moist tropical forests in flat and hilly land on the western slopes of the Western Cordillera of the Andes in Colombia. The species is often, but like many others threatened by the increasing restriction of habitat, pollution and invasive species.

Features

The adults reach body lengths of 32 (males) or 35 mm (females ). Your skin is the upper side slightly gekörnelt, underside smooth. On a black base color is two-tone longitudinal lines located on the side on the back, running over his eyes, and uniting at the tip of the snout. These can be golden, orange or green. The hind legs show a golden, orange, green or blue speckles. The first ( inner) is longer than the second finger; Webbed toes missing.

Reproduction

Unlike other poison dart frogs, the males do not occur in wrestling against each other, but try to drown out their opponents with loud shouts until they retire in the presence of a female. The calls are uttered from ground level fall foliage usually. During mating, the females lay 15 to 28 eggs in small cavities on the ground. The males have later hatched larvae to the next slow-flowing waters.