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Oophaga arborea (Myers, Daly & Martínez, 1984)
Polkadot Poison Frog | family: Dendrobatidae subfamily: Dendrobatinae genus: Oophaga |
| Species Description: Myers, C. W., J. W. Daly, and V. Martínez. 1984. An arboreal poison frog (Dendrobates) from western Panama. American Museum Novitates 2783: 1–20 | |
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Etymology: In 2011, the genus Dendrobates was subdivided into seven genera, including the new genus Oophaga by Brown et al. (2011). The origin of the genus name, "Oophaga", comes from the Greek words, "oon" and "phagein", meaning "egg" and "eat", respectively (Ortiz et al. 2018). The species epithet, "arboreus" is of Latin origin and translates to “relating to trees”. The name was given because of the generally arboreal tendency of the species (Myers et al. 1984). |
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