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| Discovery | Mrs. Cadwell and Mr. Myers, 1990. American Museum Novitates, New York, 2988: 1-21 [1]. |
| Type locality | "primary lowland forest near Cachoeira Juruá, Rio Zingu, State of Pará, Brazil....approximately 03°22'S, 51°51'W ... within a loop of the Rio Xingu, about 220 km S of its junction with the Rio Amazonas". |
| Holotype | Holotype (MZUSP 64775) in the Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia in Sao Paolo, Brazil. |
| Etymology | Places the tadpoles often in the hollow shells of the paranuts that are called "casthana" in Portuguese. |
| Classification | D. castaneoticus is a member of the Dendrobates quinquevittatus group. |
| Synonymy | English name: Brazil-nut Poison Frog |
| History | |
| Physical description | Dendrobates castaneoticus is a little black frog with a white stripe pattern and an orange spot in the armpit, loins and underpart of the leg. |
| Distribution | |
| Biotope | Known only from the type locality and from Taperinha, near 300 km to the northwest of the type locality (Pará, Brazil). |
| Care and breeding | Similar to Dendrobates ventrimaculatus, at a temperature of 24 to 28°C. |
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