Allobates ornatus

Description

Allobates ornatus is a species of frog in the Aromobatidae family. It is endemic to North East Peru where it is only known near its type locality, Tarapoto, San Martín Province, on the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental (an independent system from the Andes). It has been found in disturbed lowland rainforest (350m N.N.) of the Cumbaza and Shilcayo river drainage systems and frogs inhabit streambanks up to 5 m from the shore in humid montane forest at low elevations. This species is not present in the inner valley of the Cordillera Oriental (Alto Cainarachi valley), where it is replaced by Hyloxalus argyrogaster (Morales & Schulte 1993). This species has normal tadpoles of brown color which are carried all together on the dorsum of the male and are released in small rainwater puddles on the side of the streams. Eggs are deposited in the leaf litter. The call is a single "tick" whistle repeated at intervals and males answer each other. The frogs are locally abundant in wet sites.