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). |
![]() © 2010 Brad Wilson (1 of 14) |
|
|
|