Phantasmal Tree Frog

Phantasmal tree frogs (epipedobates tricolor) are better known as phantasmal poison frogs. They are known as phantasmal poison frogs, because they are poison dart frogs. They are phantasmal, because they are so small, and they are so colorful, people think that they might as well be pictures of their imagination. They are about as small as a quarter, as in coins. They are so small and colorful, and hard to see. They are red with yellow stripes down their backs. Or they could be brown with yellow stripes. The stripes could also be green. The legs help them leap great distances.

Phantasmal poison frogs have dangerous skin that holds poison inside. The poison can be made into good, usable painkillers for patients. These painkillers are approximately 200 times more effective than morphine. The frogs are dangerous, but what they have is valuable, but too hard to get, though not impossible.

Males and female frogs are almost the same size; about 0.8-1.1 inches. Phantasmal poison frogs live in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, west of the Andes Mountains. Fully grown up poison frogs spend most of their time on land near mountains. They have the skill to survive in wet and dry areas, but they spend their time near water. Tadpoles have to live in and grow up in water only. These frogs eat small arthropods.

According to the World Conservation Union, phantasmal poison frogs are endangered. They are endangered from many things, even people who want to keep them as pets. The materials inside the cages are dangerous for the frogs, and can kill them. Also, human agriculture harms the frogs, because they have nowhere to live. Phantasmal poison frogs, or phantasmal tree frogs, are interesting animals, but they might be extinct, so we need to try to help them.