Müllerian mimicry in Dendrobates frogs near Tarapoto,
Peru
(a - c) The three frogs are all putative members of a single species,
Dendrobates
imitator. Each of these different morphs is sympatric with a different
species in a different geographical region. The species with which each
morph is sympatric is shown directly below that morph. From left to right,
the species in (d - f ) are: Dendrobates variabilis (Tarapoto),
Dendrobates
fantasticus (Huallaga Canyon) and Dendrobates ventrimaculatus (Yurimaguas).
From: Fig. 1 in Rebecca Symula, Rainer Schulte & Kyle Summers (2001) Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a mimetic radiation in Peruvian poison frogs supports a Müllerian mimicry hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 2415-2421. © The Royal Society. Shown here by permission of the authors and the Royal Society.
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