Ameerega planipaleae

Ameerega planipaleae
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Genus:	Ameerega
Species:	A. planipaleae
Binomial name
Ameerega planipaleae (Morales and Velazco, 1998)
Synonyms
Epipedobates planipaleae Morales and Velazco, 1998 Ameerega planipaleae Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006

The Oxapampa poison frog (Ameerega planipaleae) is a frog. It lives in Peru.

Home

This frog is awake during the day. People have seen it near streams and in wet places on mountains. People see the frog on the dead leaves on the ground. It can live in forest that has been destroyed and is growing back near pine farms. People saw it on small farms, passion fruit farms and chilli farms. They saw it on what used to be a fish farm. Scientists saw the frog between 1924 and 2080 meters above sea level.

The frog lives near Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park, but scientists have not written that they saw the frog inside the park.

Danger

Scientists say this frog is in very big danger of dying out. In some places, humans change the places where the frog lives to make farms, especially farms for chili peppers and granadilla. The chemicals that farms put on the plants to make them grow can poison the frog. People also cut down trees to get wood.