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ARROW POISON FROG [1 record]

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Record 1 1988-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
DEF

Common name used primarily for the closely-related, poisonous frogs of the genera Dendrobates and Phyllobates, family Dendrobatidae.

OBS

Source: (Encyc. Britannica, I, p. 542-543)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
DEF

Grenouille arboricole d'Amérique tropicale, dont les glandes cutanées sécrètent une toxine très violente (genres dendrobates, phyllobates et sminthillus; famille des ranidés) (...) Les dendrobates sécrètent un venin, la batrachotoxine, dont les indiens enduisaient la pointe de leurs flèches.

OBS

Source : (GDEL, p. 3098-3099)

Spanish

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