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). |
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