Golden poison frog perched on a mossy log

Amphibia · Anura

Golden Poison Frog

Phyllobates terribilis

Considered the most toxic vertebrate on Earth, containing enough deadly batrachotoxin steroid alkaloids in its skin to kill over 10 adult humans.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
ENEndangered
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 299 licence-filtered records across 3 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (5)