Dendrobatoidea

Dendrobatoidea
Dendrobates tinctorius "azureus"
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea
Cope, 1865
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The Dendrobatoidea are a superfamily of frogs.[1] This group is found in the Neotropics and has the largest diversity of alkaloids among all amphibians. These alkaloids show up in the skin by one of three ways: de novo biosynthesis, direct sequestration, or metabolic transformation.[2]

  1. ^ Grant, T., Frost, D. R., Caldwell, J. P., Gagliardo, R., Haddad, C. F. B., Kok, P. J. R., Means, D. B., Noonan, B. P., Schargel, W. E., and Wheeler, W. C. (2006). Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae) (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 299, 1–262
  2. ^ Gonzalez, M., & Carazzone, C. (2023). Eco-Metabolomics Applied to the Chemical Ecology of Poison Frogs (Dendrobatoidea). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 49(9–10), 570–598.