There are 41.
Dendrobates abditus | Dendrobates altobueyensis | Dendrobates amazonicus | Dendrobates arboreus | Dendrobates auratus (dart poison frog) | Dendrobates azureus | Dendrobates biolat | Dendrobates bombetes | Dendrobates captivus | Dendrobates castaneoticus (the Brazil nut poison frog) | Dendrobates claudiae | Dendrobates duellmani | Dendrobates fantasticus | Dendrobates flavovittatus | Dendrobates fulguritus | Dendrobates galactonotus (splash-backed poison frog) | Dendrobates granuliferus | Dendrobates histrionicus (harlequin poison frog) | Dendrobates imitator (imitating poison frog) | Dendrobates lamasi | Dendrobates lehmanni | Dendrobates leucomelas | Dendrobates minutus | Dendrobates mysteriosus | Dendrobates occultator | Dendrobates opisthomelas | Dendrobates pumilio (strawberry poison frog) | Dendrobates quinquevittatus | Dendrobates reticulatus | Dendrobates rubrocephalus | Dendrobates sirensis | Dendrobates speciosus | Dendrobates steyermarki | Dendrobates tinctorius (dyeing poison frog) | Dendrobates truncatus | Dendrobates vanzolinii (brazilian poison frog) | Dendrobates variabilis | Dendrobates ventrimaculatus | Dendrobates vicentei | Dendrobates viridis | Dendrobates virolinensis | (total: 41)
There are many species of poison dart frogs, but the genus names are Dendrobates, Phyllobates, Mantella, Ameerega, Oophaga, Ranitomeya and Hyloxalus. Until recently most species were withing Dendrobates, Phyllobates and Mantella, but they have undergone revisions and additions.
Dendrobates azureus was created in 1855.
Dendrobates tinctorius was created in 1799.
Dendrobates steyermarki was created in 1971.
The frog was given this name by Franz Steindachner in 1864, Dendrobates is the group (genus) to wich the frog belongs. The species epithet leuco-melas literally means 'light and dark'.
Gregory O. Vigle has written: 'A new species of Dendrobates (Anura, Dendrobatidae) from the lowland rain forests of Western Ecuador'
Dendrobates pumilio
Dendrobates ventrimaculatus
It is blue with big black spot.
So the process of naming an animal isn't as hard as it sounds. First of all, you need to determine what kind of animal it is. Most new found animals will fit into a genus (remember Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?) and from there it's easy. However, sometimes we find animals that do not fit into one of the classification levels for that kind of animal. For instance, we might find some kind of mammal that doesn't fit into any of the current mammal classes, so we have to create a new one. That's harder. But once you get it into a genus, then you can choose the species name. That's usually not hard. All you do is choose a word that describes that creature in Latin. For instance, auratusis common because it means gold in Latin, and many golden creatures have this for their species name after their genus name. So Dendrobates auratus belongs to the Dendrobates genus and is gold. Many species can have the same species name, but if they have the same species name, they can't have the same genus name and vice-versa.
Amphibia is a vertebrate class of about 5000 species The class includes frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, axolotls and caecilians. Some names are Great crested newt Triturus cristatus Axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum Marine toad Bufo marinus Golden toad Bufo periglenes (extinct) Some more toads are: Bufo kumquat , Bufo melanostictus Some poison arrow frogs are: Dendrobates amazonicus, Dendrobates lehmannii, Phyllobates terribilis, Dendrobates azureus Some other frogs are: Rana sylvatica, Rana catesbeiana (American bullfrog) Some caecilians are: Caecilia armata, Caecilia albiventris, Brasilotyphlus brasiliensis.
D. leucomelas is a species of poison arrow frog. It's usually one or two inches long and colored in dramatic yellow and black tones. It's sometimes called the bumblebee poison arrow frog for this reason.