Andinobates cassidyhornae Amézquita, Márquez, Mejía-Vargas, Kahn, Suárez, and Mazariegos, 2013
Cassidy's poison dart frog (Andinobates cassidyhornae) is a frog. It lives in Colombia.[2][3][1]
Body
The adult frog is 19.03 ± 0.31 mm long from nose to rear end. It has disks on its toes for climbing. The skin of the frog's back is red in color with black spots. The skin of the frog's belly is black with red spots. Parts of the face, for example the eardrum are dark brown or black in color. The rear end is bright red with some black marks. The sides of the body are red. The front legs are red near the top, brown in the middle, and dark brown near the front feet. The ends of the front toes are light brown. The tops of the back legs are red in color with brown spots. The lower parts of the back legs are brown with red spots. The iris of the eye is dark brown in color and the pupil of the eye is hard to see because the iris is so dark.[3]
When a animal that wants to eat the frog bites the frog, that part of the frog's skin turns back. Scientists do not know if any one black mark is a regular spot or a bite.[3]
Name
Scientists named this frog for Cassidy Horn, who studied poison frogs.[3]
The male frog calls to the female frog during the middle of the day. The female frog calls back. Scientists think this frog lays eggs during March and April, when there is the most water. Scientists have seen male frogs carrying tadpoles on their backs. They have seen frogs swimming in water in bromeliad plants and in Wettinia palm plants.[1]
Amezquita A; Marquez R; Medina R; Mejia-Vargas D; Kahn TR; Suarez G; Mazariegos L (2013). "A new species of Andean poison frog, Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae (from the northwestern Andes of Colombia". Zootaxa. 1620: 163–178.
