{{Short description|Species of frog}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN/> | genus = Excidobates | species = condor | authority = Almendáriz, Ron, & Brito, 2012 | range_map = | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = }}

'''''Excidobates condor''''', the '''Cóndor poison frog''', is a species of frog in the family Dendrobatidae. It is endemic to Ecuador.<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6 |title=''Excidobates condor'' Almendáriz, Ron & Brito M., 2012 |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Dendrobatoidea/Dendrobatidae/Dendrobatinae/Excidobates/Excidobates-condor |access-date=July 12, 2024}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb |title=''Excidobates condor'' Almendáriz, Ron & Brito M., 2012 |author1= Adrian Gutierrez|author2= Alicia Hernandez|author3= Thomas Phillips |editor1= Ann T. Chang |date=May 5, 2022 |language= |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/7915 |access-date=July 12, 2024}}</ref><ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |title= Cóndor Poison Frog: ''Excidobates condor'' |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/78500583/98658744 |article-number=e.T78500583A98658744 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T78500583A98658744.en |id=78500583 |year=2019 |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |access-date=July 12, 2024}}</ref>

==Description== The adult male frog measures about 18.5–20.6&nbsp;mm in snout-vent length and one adult female frog measured 21.6&nbsp;mm. The skin of the frog's dorsum and ventral areas is black in color. The adult male frog's head is red in color from the upper mouth to the eyes. The female frog's head is uniform black. The front legs are orange-brown in color above the elbow, most intensely at the feet. The bottoms of the front feet are orange in color. The bottoms of the back feet are black in color. The iris of the eye is black in color.<ref name=Amph />

==Etymology== Scientists named this frog ''condor'' for the area in which it lives: la Cordillera del Condor (Condor Range).<ref name=Amph />

==Habitat== This largely arboreal frog lives in montane cloud forests, both primary and secondary. It is found at the bases of trees with bromeliad plants growing nearby, between 1770 and 2130 meters above sea level.<ref name=IUCN />

==Young== Scientists believe the male frogs carry tadpoles on their backs from their hatching sites to other pools of water where they develop because this is what other frogs in ''Excidobates'' do.<ref name=IUCN /> Scientists have seen the tadpoles swimming in water in bromeliad plants.<ref name=Amph />

==Threats== The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered due to habitat loss, especially associated with pit mining, both the mining itself and resulting pollution.<ref name=IUCN />

==Original description== *{{cite journal|author1=Almendariz A|author2= Ron SR|author3= Brito J |year=2012 |title=Una especie nueva de rana venenosa de altura del genero Excidobates (Dendrobatoidea: Dendrobatidae) de la Cordillera del Condor. |journal=Pap. Avulsos Zool (Sao Paulo) |volume=52|pages=387–399}}

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Category:Frogs of South America Category:Endemic amphibians of Ecuador Category:Amphibians described in 2012 condor Category:Taxa named by Santiago Ron