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Oophaga sylvatica (Funkhouser, 1956)
Little-devil poison frog, Kiki
family: Dendrobatidae
subfamily: Dendrobatinae
genus: Oophaga
Species Description: Funkhouser, J. W. 1956. New frogs from Ecuador and southwestern Colombia. Zoologica. New York 41: 73–80.
 
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, "sylvatica", is from the Latin words, "silvae", which refers to the species' presence in lowland tropical forests (Ortiz et al. 2018).

Oophaga sylvatica
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Conservation Status (definitions)
IUCN Red List Status Account Near Threatened (NT)
CITES Appendix II
National Status Red List Amphibians of Ecuador: Least Concern
Regional Status None
conservation needs Access Conservation Needs Assessment Report .

   

 
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