Spot-legged poison frog | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Dendrobatidae |
Subfamily: | Phyllobatinae |
Genus: | Ameerega |
Species: | A. picta |
Binomial name | |
Ameerega picta (Tschudi, 1838) |
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Synonyms | |
Dendrobates pictus ssp. guayanensis Heatwole, Solano & Heatwole, 1965 |
Dendrobates pictus ssp. guayanensis Heatwole, Solano & Heatwole, 1965
The spot-legged poison frog or sapito pintado (Ameerega picta; 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.