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Josh
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2005 19:06
From this site http://www.senckenberg.uni-frankfurt.de/odes/02-04.htm
Mantella cowani
Mantella haraldmeieri
Mantella nigricans
Mantella baroni
Mantella madagascariensis
Mantella aurantiaca
Mantella crocea
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Josh
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2005 19:12
Mantella milotympanum
Mantella pulchra
Mantella bernhardi
Mantella betsileo
Mantella viridis
Mantella expectata
Mantella manery
Mantella laevigata
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Devin Edmonds
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2005 21:29
Gorgeous frogs that deserve more attention. Have you seen this site http://www.hitroy.com/mantellas.html ? It basically uses the same photographs as above but with an additional picture and a little more information. Both are very good guides to mantella frogs.
Devin Edmonds
www.amphibiancare.com
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chazz gomez
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2005 22:01
Mantella cowani, that one looks the best to me. Also the red one looks very awesome.
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Josh
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2005 22:13
Very nice, I hadn't seen that site yet.
Hopefully someday they are as popular as dart frogs are now.
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spawn
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2005 22:53
Mantella aurantiaca looks like an imitator of the Phyllobates terribilis complexion. Do these mantellas have toxic mucus like Darts?
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Josh
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2005 23:16
From what I've read they do make toxins from their native diet, and just as darts do they lose that in captivity.
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spawn
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# Posted: 31 Jan 2005 00:47
I've always wondered: what DO these frogs eat in the wild that they're not getting in captivity that is causing them to lose their toxicity? Is it more elaborate than just a varietal diet? Maybe a certain insect carries a vitamin that aids in synthesizing the toxin?
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Josh
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# Posted: 31 Jan 2005 01:09
From what I've heard it's the ants that they eat in the wild, but the ants get it from the plants.
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PoisonArrowDartFrog
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# Posted: 25 Mar 2005 03:55
I cant figure out which one is my mantella it looks like two diff ones up there..if anyone can tell the diff he is under the frog general...
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PoisonArrowDartFrog
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# Posted: 25 Mar 2005 03:57
its either Mantella pulchra or Mantella madagascariensis
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sandy shabano
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# Posted: 29 May 2006 19:10
the hitroy.com has expired
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utopia781
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# Posted: 30 May 2006 14:36
it is a shame they dont get more attention. i tried carrying them at the petstore that i manage, but they were not a big hit by any means! a year later i still have the mantella aruantacia. it could partially be because im only 30 minutes south of black jungle, and everyone would rather have darts.
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Becky
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# Posted: 27 Aug 2006 18:26
Oh my god, those frogs are BEAUTIFUL.
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otis07
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2008 22:10
M. betsileo is very similiar to M. ebenaui, just in case anyone is wondering and at one point they were considered the same species. And the classification has been changed so many times over the past century nothing is set in stone.
Good representation of current classification Josh.
http://www.freewebs.com/kapoktree/
D. imitator, D. lamasi, D. tinctorius, D. leucomelas, D. auratus, M. viridis, M. ebenaui, D. ebrecatta, T. corticale, L. caerulea, H. madagascareinsis, B. orientalis, B. americanis, R. catesbeiana, lots of geckos |
