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What

Pasco Poison Frog

Observer

snakedr

Date

Oct 2, 2011

Place

Departmento Pasco, Peru (Google, OSM)

Description

Single individual photographed in habitat. This individual exhibits slight phenotypic variation from the typical "morph" seen in the pet trade. This individual was observed from a previously unknown population.

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What

Oxapampa Poison Frog Ameerega planipaleae

Observer

snakedr

Date

Oct 3, 2011

Place

Oxapampa, Departmento Pasco, Peru (Google, OSM)

Description

IUCN Redlist: Critically Endangered

All photos in habitat at the type locality. Possibly the most rare and imperiled of all Dendrobatid frogs. This species is restricted to the type locality which is a very narrow band of forest at a location severely encroached by agriculture.

Represented are an adult male and female. Though multiple calling males were heard in the area, individual frogs are impossible to find. These two frogs were the result of 50+ man hours of searching the locality.

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