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This species is known from the type locality, Cachoeira Juruá, Rio Xingu, Pará state, Brazil; from about 300km to the northwest of the type locality, Taperinha, Pará state, Brazil; and from Flona Tapajos, Santarem, Pará state, Brazil. It is probably more widespread than currently recognized.

It is common where it is found.

It lives in the leaf-litter of the tropical rainforest. It uses the water inside the "ouriço" of Brazil nuts and small temporary pools for reproduction. Eggs are laid on the ground and the tadpoles are carried to pools to develop.

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Forest conversion, logging, fire and the international pet trade are threats to this species.

• 5.1.1 Intentional use (species is the target)
• 2.1.1 Shifting agriculture
• 7.1.3 Trend Unknown/Unrecorded
• 5.3.5 Motivation Unknown/Unrecorded

Conservation units are present within its range.

Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

• Caldwell, J.P. 1993. Brazil nut fruit capsules as phytotelmata: interactions among anuran and insect larvae. Canadian Journal of Zoology: 1193-1201.
• Caldwell, J.P. and Carmozina de Araujo, M. 1998. Cannibalistic interactions resulting from indiscriminate predatory behavior in tadpoles of poison frogs (Anura: Dendrobatidae). Biotropica: 92-103.
• Caldwell, J.P. and Myers, C.W. 1990. A new poison frog from Amazonian Brazil, with further revision of the quinquevittatus group of Dendrobates. American Museum Novitates: 1-23.