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''Phyllobates'' is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America, from Nicaragua to Colombia. ''Phyllobates'' contains the most poisonous species of frog, the golden poison frog (''Phyllobates terribilis''). They are typical of the poison dart frogs, in that all species are colourful, and have varying degrees of toxicity. Only species of ''Phyllobates'' are used by natives of South American tribes as sources of poison for their hunting darts. The most toxic of the many poisonous alkaloids these frogs emit from their skins is batrachotoxin, but a wide number of other toxic compounds are secreted by these frogs. == Taxonomy == ''Phyllobates'' (Ancient Greek for "leaf climber") used to contain many of the species which are now within the ''Ranitomeya'' genus. However, it now just contains those six members within the ''Phyllobates bicolor ''species group. These are: ''P. lugubris'' species group *''Phyllobates aurotaenia'' (Boulenger, 1913) *''Phyllobates lugubris'' (Schmidt, 1857) *''Phyllobates vittatus'' (Cope, 1893) ''P. bicolor'' species group *''Phyllobates bicolor'' (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) *''Phyllobates sp. aff. aurotaenia 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Translate )〕 *''Phyllobates terribilis'' (Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978) All these different species within the genus exhibit a diversity in color. Some examples are, ''P. terribilis'', with color morphs of "mint", "yellow", and "orange". ''P. vittatus'', another example, is always black as a ground color, but can show yellow stripes, orange stripes, red stripes,(stripes of all colors can be seen in two forms, narrow- and wide-banded) and turquoise, green, or blue legs, etc. The bicolor dart frog (''Phyllobates bicolor'') can range from yellow to orange, from black legs to green legs, to almost a uniform color of any of the aforementioned color morphs. ''P. aurotaenia'' specimens are yellow-banded or orange. They are always smaller than ''P. vittatus'', and beyond locality, this is the best way to differentiate between the two in the field or in the hobby. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phyllobates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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