Excidobates condor

Excidobates condor
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Genus:	Excidobates
Species:	E. condor
Binomial name
Excidobates condor (Myers, 1982)
Synonyms
Dendrobates condor Myers, 1982 Ranitomeya captiva Bauer, 1988 Adelphobtes captivus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 Excidobates captivus Twomey and Brown, 2008

The Cóndor poison frog (Excidobates condor) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador.

Body

The adult male frog is about 18.5 - 20.6 mm long from nose to rear end and one adult female frog was 21.6 mm long. The skin of the frog's back and belly is black in color. The adult male frog's head is red in color from the mouth to the eyes. The female frog's head is black. The front legs are orange-brown in color. The bottoms of the front feet are orange in color. The bottoms of the back feet are black in color. The iris of the eye is black in color.

Name

Scientists named this frog condor after the place where they found it.

Home

This frog lives in trees in cloud forests on mountains, in forests that have never been cut down and forests that have been cut down and are growing back. People have seen this frog between 1770 and 2130 meters above sea level.

Young

Scientists believe the male frogs carry tadpoles on their backs. The male frogs take the tadpoles to water. Scientists have seen the tadpoles swimming in water in bromeliad plants.

Danger

Scientists say this frog is in danger of dying out. This is because human beings change the places where it lives, especially to dig rocks and metals out of the ground and bad chemicals in the water.

First paper

• Almendariz A; Ron SR; Brito J (2012). "Una especie nueva de rana venenosa de altura del genero Excidobates (Dendrobatoidea: Dendrobatidae) de la Cordillera del Condor". Pap. Avulsos Zool (Sao Paulo). 52: 387–399.