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Zimmermanns' Poison Frog

Ranitomeya variabilis

Classification

Order
Anura

Ranitomeya variabilis, formerly known as Dendrodates variabilis, is a species of small poison dart frog distributed in northern Peru, along the eastern slope of Andes in the upper Rio Huallaga drainage basin. Its common name, Zimmerman's poison frog, is named after Elke Zimmermann, a German zoologist who described the morph of this species and differentiated it from D. ventrimaculatus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 85Brazil · 17