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Monday, April 8, 2013

Ranitomeya amazonica

             Ranitomeya amazonica is a poison dart frog in the genus Ranitomeya which lives in the Amazon jungle. The frog has been encountered in the Alpahuayo Mishana National Reserve in Peru. 
             Ranitomeya amazonica is 16–19 mm long with smooth, black skin. The torso is laterally striped orange or red while the legs and arms feature a mesh of blue, grey or green on black. 
             It was first described by Rainer Schulte in 1999 as Dendrobates amazonicus when he separated it from Dendrobates ventrimaculatus. The validity of the species is still being discussed among scientists.

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dendrobase.de        frogforum.net       n24.de

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