I've virtually been around the world on the search for the origin of this, including some opinions that it is a P. terribilis morph, not galactonotus, with the exact same photo you posted (in German.) Sean Stewart does have a site I found with a color photo, which was similar, but more orange than this one, and someone by the name of Darren Meyer is breeding the orange looking ones, but I could get no further into the site-- only got a lot of stuff about news from the Netherlands.



All in all, I could find nothing about it being a new wild discovery, then further bred from the wild. So far, it seems to be a product of captive breeding, perhaps from a mutation that occurred in captivity.



Someone here suggested it was a frog with a fungus infection on the skin. While I think this possibility is still there, I think the single photo of this particular frog shows it is much too lively looking, and I can see no lesions. The somewhat more orange versions of it were groups of obviously healthy froglets. We'll get it figured out eventually.
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Patty

Pahsimeroi, Idaho



D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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