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the golden poison dart frog

$69.00 – $180.00

The golden poison dart frog is one of these and the most deadly. Its poison is 20 times more toxic than that of other dart frogs.

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Taxonomy and etymology of the golden dart poison dart frog

The golden poison frog was described as Phyllobates terribilis in 1978 by herpetologists Charles W. Myers and Borys Malkin as well as biochemist John W. Daly;^[3] the species name terribilis is a reference to the deadly toxins present in the skin secretions of this species.