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Poison Frogs - Species - Dendrobates Quinquevittatus

Discovery	Steindachner,1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 260.
Type locality	"Salto do Girao" (=Salto do Jirau), Rondônia, Brazil.
Holotype	The holotype: NHMW 16517, can be found in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Etymology
Classification
Synonymy	Dutch name: vijfstreep boomklimmer English name: Rio Madeira Poison Frog / Amazon poison frog (CITES) - Dendrobates tinctorius quinquevittatus--GORHAM 1974 - Dendrobates tinctorius igneus Melin, 1941, Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitter-Hets Samhalles Handlingar, (B)1(4): 66. Syntypes: NHMG (2 specimens) to be found in the Naturhistoriska Museet in Göteborg, Sweden. Type locality: "Rio Itaya (near Iquitos), Perú". Synonymy by Silverstone, 1975, Science Bulletin. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 21: 11. - Dendrobates quinquevittatus--Silverstone, 1975, Science Bulletin. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 21: 11.
History	In Silverstone's Dendrobates minutus group (nowadays mainly Minyobates); in Myers' Dendrobates quinquevittatus group, 1982, American Museum Novitates, New York, 2721: 2, and Caldwell en Myers, 1990, American Museum Novitates, New York, 2988: 1-21. Synonymy and account available in Caldwell and Myers, 1990, American Museum Novitates, New York, 2988: 1-21. Most data on this species before 1990 refer to Dendrobates ventrimaculatus see Caldwell and Myers (op. cit.).
Physical description	Size: 14 - 17 mm. The animals have a black base colour with three white to yellow dorsal stripes and to lateral stripes. The ventral and limbs are silver-grey to green or orange with black spots. The throat is speckled black as well.
Distribution	Brazil, French-Guyana and Peru
Biotope	Moist forest areas, partly on the bottom, partly in trees several meters high up in bromeliads.
Care and breeding	Even though it is a small frog, the vivarium can not be too small and has to be high, for the animals like climbing. The day time temperature will have to be about 24 - 28°C and can drop to 22°C at night. Bromeliads on several levels in the vivarium to provide enough climbing possibilities. The 4 to 6 eggs are laid on leaves of bromeliad near the water in the bromeliad. The eggs hatch after 12 to 14 days and are fed by the female with food eggs.
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