[hypostatic]

So I did a google image search for harlequin PDFs, and i found this guy:

Absolutely stunning picture


I also found this fellow:

Are they both the same species?

 

[hypostatic]

Here is a video of the same type as the first frog:

 

[Mitch]

Those are Histo's, or Dendrobates histrionicus.

 

[sbreland]

All histos, all VERY expensive, and all VERY rare in the hobby (and many rare in the wild as well).

 

[epiphytes etc.]

Those are Histo's, or Dendrobates histrionicus.

Dendrobates, huh?

 

[frogparty]

Oophaga histrionicus

 

[Mitch]

Dendrobates, huh?

Whoops... oophaga I was going off the video title.

 

[JeremyHuff]

Whoops... oophaga I was going off the video title.

Don't you mean Ooph! lol

 

[Taron]

Harlequin = varied color or decoration

This is the common name for oophaga histrionicus which oophaga sylvatica broke off from.

Harlequin dart definitely describes them well as they are by far the sweetest species in the hobby.

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[DJboston]

I love that first picture. I have a statue I'm finishing prototype for tonight entitled "oophaga." This first one is two frogs on a log. A blue jean pumilio and a histo, probably bulls eye red or maybe this one on top. I'm going to eventually release all the frogs in the genus as a two frog statue for the oophaga side project...Also, I want to do a few different special edition morph combos. Blue jeans was a no brainer as nothing screams pumilio or dart frogs like it....but for histo, it's been tricky trying to figure out which color morph to go with it. Something that contrasts well with the blue jeans.

 

[Ed]

Don't forget that Dendrobates is still going to be the listed name in all of the older literature...

Ed

 

[hypostatic]

So i did a little more research which landed me on the IUCN Species Program (International Union for Conservation of Nature) web site, and I came upon a similar frog:

This is Oophaga lehmanni, Lehmann's Poison Frog. Both frogs are from the same region, but Lehmann's frog is considered critically endangered. Also, Lötters (1992b) doubted the distinction of this species from Oophaga histrionica, according to the IUCN website.

So are they both the same species?

 

[hypostatic]

Here are their overlapping habitats, according to IUCN:

lehmanni

histrionica

 

[ChrisK]

Closely related different species

 

[Baltimore Bryan]

Yes like Chris said different species, but there is apparently a frog called the Anchicaya which is a naturally occurring hybrid between lehmanni and histrionica. I got some pictures of them from the Cali Zoo in Colombia and made a thread with the pics in the Lounge section here if you want to see: http://www.dendroboard.com/forum/lounge/66207-anyone-been-cali-zoo-colombia.html
Bryan

 

[hypostatic]

Oh here's a bit more info on the subject from AmphibiaWeb:

Dendrobates lehmanni can breed successfully with D. histrionicus in captivity. Other than its lack of histrionicotoxins, D. lehmanni does not vary from D. histrionicus and so its status as a distinct species has often been questioned (Walls 1994).

http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Dendrobates&where-species=lehmanni

 

[skylsdale]

Also, it's Oophaga histrionica. If the genus moniker is feminine then the species follows suit as well.

 

[JimO]

So those are histos rather than lehmanni?

Edit - Sorry, I didn't see the second page before responding. Either way, the orange and black banded are one of my favorites of all darts.

 

[ChrisK]

Well I still like to consider Sylvaticus to be Histrionicus, but always felt Lehmanni isn't Histrionicus, never was, and the different toxins kind of confirms it

 

[skylsdale]

It's also Oophaga sylvatica.