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Oophaga granulifera (Taylor, 1958)
Granular Poison Frog
family: Dendrobatidae
subfamily: Dendrobatinae
genus: Oophaga
Species Description: Taylor, E. H. 1958. Additions to the known herpetological fauna of Costa Rica with comments on other species. No. III. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 39: 3–40.
 
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).

sound file    (668.5 K WAV file)
Locality Palmar Norte
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State
Country Costa Rica
Date Recorded 2005-03-10
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Background Insects in background.
Notes Frog is defending his territory. No female was in the area, so it is not a mating call.
Recorded By Peter Janzen
Source
Copyright For commercial use, contact Peter Janzen (pjanzen@gmx.de).
Date Entered 2005-07-07

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