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Poison frog, (family Dendrobatidae), additionally called poison dart frog, dart-poison frog, or poison arrow frog, any of about a hundred and eighty species of New World frogs characterized by using the capacity to produce extraordinarily poisonous skinsecretions. Poison frogs inhabit the forests of the New World tropics fromNicaragua to Peru and Brazil, and a few species are utilized by South American tribes to coat the recommendations of darts and arrows. Poison frogs, or dendrobatids, are small and variety from 12 to 19 mm (zero.5 to 0.75 inches) from snout to vent within the minute poison frogs (Minyobates) to approximately 65 mm (2.6 inches) in the skunk frog (Aromobates nocturnus).