Ranitomeya summersi

Summer's poison frog (Ranitomeya summersi) is a frog.  It lives in Peru.

Body
The adult frog is about 20.4 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back and head is black with bright orange rings around the head and around the body. There is one bright orange stripe on each leg.

Home
This frog is awake during the day and lives on the ground  in dry forests that have never been cut down and dry forests that have been cut down and are growing back. It lives in forests that are not too high up in the mountains. People have seen this frog between 180 and 700 meters above sea level.

Young

The female frog lays eggs in dead leaves on the ground She lays 4-9 eggs at a time. After the eggs hatch, the male frog carries them to pools of water inside holes in trees or in the plant Dieffenbachia.

Danger
Scientists believe this frog is in danger of dying out because people cut down trees to make farms and because people catch this frog to sell as a pet.

Scientists think this frog might live in the protected parks Cordillera Escalera Regional Conservation Area and Cordillera Azul National Park but they have not seen it there.

First paper

References

Category:Frogs of South America