AmphibiaWeb - Oophaga pumilio


Oophaga pumilio (Schmidt, 1857) Strawberry Poison Frog	family: Dendrobatidae subfamily: Dendrobatinae genus: Oophaga
Species Description: Schmidt, O. 1857. Diagnosen neuer Frösche des zoologischen Cabinets zu Krakau. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 24: 10–15.
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).

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