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ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías

SECTION B: LIFE SCIENCES

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021)

First 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2287
Submitted
May 13, 2021
Published
2021-11-16

Abstract

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.

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