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. 2004 May 5;101(21):8045–8050. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402365101

Table 2. Occurrence of pumiliotoxins (PTX), allopumiliotoxins (aPTX), and a homopumiliotoxin (hPTX) as major and minor alkaloids in extracts from bufonid, mantelid, and myobatrachid poison frog.

Pumiliotoxins
hPTX PTX aPTX PTX PTX PTX PTX PTX PTX aPTX aPTX
Family, genus, and species Location Year 223G 251D 267A 267C 307A 307F 307G 309A 323A 323B 325A
Bufonidae
    Melanophryniscus South America
        montavidarais La Coronilla, Roche, Uraguay 1987
        moraires Serra de Mantiguenra, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1979
        emsstalanari Tanti, Córdoba, Argentina 1989
Mantellidae
    Mantella Madagascar
        aurantiaca N. Andasibe 1989
        baroni N. Andasibe 1989
E. Andasibe 1993
S. Moramango 1989
An' Ala 1993
Ranomafana 1993
Sahavondrona 1993
        betsileo Farakaraina 1993
        cowani Antoetra 1993
        crocea N. Andasibe 1989
        expectata Isalo 1993
        laevigata Nosy Mangabe 1993
        pulchra Ambavala 1990
An' Ala 1993
        viridis Montagne des Francais 1994
Myobatrachidae
    Pseudophryne Australia
        australis Pearl Beach, New South Wales 1989
        bibroni Nortin Summit, South Australia 2000
        coriacea Daisy Hill, Queensland 1987
        corroboree Round Mtn, New South Wales 1989
        pengilley Yarrangobilly, New South Wales 1987
        semimarmorata Holy Plains State Park, Victoria 1999

•, Major (>50 μg per 100 mg of skin); ○, minor (>5 μg per 100 mg of skin). Only major and minor alkaloids from each species/population are tabulated. Other extracts containing only minor or trace amounts of pumiliotoxins are not reported. For structures see Fig. 3 and references. Data are from refs. 10, 11, and 15.