Poison Frogs - Species - Minyobates Minutus

Discovery	Shreve, 1935, Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 8: 212-213.
Type locality	"Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone".
Holotype	The holotype: MCZ 15288 is located at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Etymology
Classification
Synonymy	English name: Bluebelly Poison Frog / Blue-bellied Poison Frog (CITES). - Dendrobates minutus minutus Shreve, 1935 - Dendrobates shrevei Dunn, 1940, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 92: 109. Het holotype: ANSP 21791 is located in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, USA. Type locality: "Cerro Campaņa, Prov. Panama (east of the Canal Zone), 3000 feet elevation". Synonymyy by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 760; Silverstone, 1975, Science Bulletin. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 21: 30. - Minyobates minutus--Myers, 1987, Papeis Avulsos Zoologia. Universidade de São Paulo, 36: 304.
History
Physical description	Size 12-15.5mm, black-brown base with a little orange, coppery dorsal stripe. The ventral is blue.
Distribution	Central Panama to midway down the Pacific coast of Colombia, below 1000 m elevation.
Biotope	M. minutus prefers open spaces, but no direct sunlight.
Care and breeding	M. minutus is active early in the morning and in the evening (7.00 am to 11.00 am and 15.00 pm to 17.00 pm). In a vivarium of 40 cm x 40 cm x 40 cm at a temperature of 23-25°C, with moist absorbing material on the bottom and walls like fern root and mosses, some branches and rocks, 5-6 pairs can be kept. The 1 to 3 eggs are laid in between the leaves and hatch after 15 - 20 days. The metamorphosis is completed in 50 - 60 days. It is best to raise the larvae separately.
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