#1963 · 🐸 amphibians
Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog
🇳🇱 Gouden gifkikker ·Dendrobates auratus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Matt Felperin · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Noah Yawn · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Rino Di Noto · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Yannick Vandenberghe · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Yannick Vandenberghe · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Yannick Vandenberghe · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © David Vander Pluym · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © Chris Harrison · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The green-and-black poison dart frog ( Dendrobates auratus ), also known as the green-and-black poison arrow frog and with numerous other names, is a brightly colored member of the order Anura native to Central America and northwestern parts of South America. This species has also been introduced to Hawaii. It is one of the most variable of all poison dart frogs next to Dendrobates tinctorius and some Oophaga spp. It is considered to be of least concern from...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 8,907 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Frédéric Girard in 1855 (171 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog
- Nederlands
- Gouden gifkikker
- scientific name
- Dendrobates auratus
- class
- Amphibia
- order
- Anura
- family
- Dendrobatidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 8,907
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1855 by Charles Frédéric Girard
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Dendrobatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 21121, Wikidata Q775199, GBIF 5218022, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.