Golden Rocket Frog ( Anomaloglossus beebei), Kaieteur Falls National Park, Guyana

Found at the top of Kaieitur Falls the Golden Rocket Frog is a small brilliantly coloured frog that spends its entire life cycle inside the micro-ecosystem of the cloud forest's bromeliads. It is an opportuistic "sit and wait" predator whose diet includes many small arthropods, especially mosquitoes and midges.
This frog is not a poison arrow frog but is a rocket frog in the family Arombatidae. The species Anomologlossus beebei was previously considered to be part of the Dendrobatidae, but was removed after genitic analysis and because they do not appear to have the ability to sequester alkaloids in their skin. the Golden rocket frog is endemic to the Pakarimas and is also found on Mt. Ayanganna. The species is considered vulnerable because of its restricted range and population size.
Similarly to the poison dart frogs this species also carries their tadpoles one at a time from one bromeliad to another. Eggs are deposited on the leaves and the tadpoles develop and drop in the water filled phytotelm. Tadpoles feed on detritus, insect larvae, unfertilised eggs and other tadpoles.
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