Open AccessFirst record of partial erythrism in a species of poison-dart frog of the family Dendrobatidae: Mindo Poison Frog Epipedobates darwinwallacei Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2010
Author(s) -
Pedro Peñaherrera-R.,
Andrés Pinos-Sánchez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
avances en ciencias e ingenierías/avances en ciencias e ingenierías (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2528-7788
pISSN - 1390-5384
DOI - 10.18272/aci.v13i2.2287
Subject(s) - dorsum , mindo , geography , physics , biology , anatomy , quantum mechanics , molecule
We report the first recorded case of partial erythrism in a frog belonging to the family Dendrobatidae, Mindo Poison Frog Epipedobates darwinwallacei Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2010. In February 2019, we found an individual in the valley of Mindo, province of Pichincha, Ecuador showing dorsal surfaces uniformly orange, throat and posterior surfaces of legs black, and ventral surfaces yellow. Despite the atypic colouration, its general morphology coincides with E. darwinwallacei, and individuals with typical colouration for the species were abundant syntopically. We include photographs comparing the erythristic individual and a typical colouration frog from the same area. We provide a brief review of chromatic atypic colourations reported in Dendrobatoidea.