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Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog
Dendrobates auratus (Girard, 1855)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to southern Nicaragua, south to Colombia. It is established in the canyons above Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i (McKeown, 1996, Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.06.08.42.05)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Gold Arrow-poison Frog (Dendrobates auratus: Cochran, Doris M. 1961. Living Amphibians of the World. Doubleday, Garden City, New York. pp.); Green and Black Poison Frog (Dendrobates auratus: Frank, N. and E. Ramus. 1995. Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of the World. N. G. Publishing Inc., Pottsville, Pennsylvania. pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1855 Girard, Charles. Abstract of a report to Lieut. James M. Gilliss, U.S.N., upon the reptiles collected during the U.S.N. Astronomical Expedition to Chili. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7():226
1996 McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2013 Zug, George R. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press., Berkeley. pp.
2022 Meshaka, Walter E. Jr., R. Bruce Bury, Suzanne L. Collins, and Malcolm L. McCallum. Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 245pp.

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