The Peru poison frog (''Ameerega petersi''), also known as Peruvian poison frog, Peruvian poison-arrow frog and emerald poison frog, is a species of
frog in the family
Dendrobatidae
Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the Family (biology), family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central and South America. T ...
.
It is found in eastern
Peru (
Ucayali River
The Ucayali River ( es, Río Ucayali, ) is the main headstream of the Amazon River. It rises about north of Lake Titicaca, in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city. The city of ...
and
Huallaga River basins) and western
Brazil (
Acre state).
[ Its natural habitats are primary premontane and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.]
References
Ameerega
Amphibians of Brazil
Amphibians of Peru
Amphibians described in 1976
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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