Critically Endangered
Lehmann's poison frog
Oophaga lehmanni
Lehmann's poison frog or the red-banded poison frog is a frogs in the family Dendrobatidae endemic to a small part of western Colombia.
Appearance
Lehmann's poison frog has a smooth skin and exhibits aposematic colouration, that warns predators that it is inedible. There are red, orange and yellow morphs of this frog. The background colour is black or dark brown that contrasts with the two bright, broad bands of colour round the body and further coloured bands on the limbs.
This frog grows to a snout-to-vent length of 31 to 36 mm (1.2 to 1.4 in).
Range and habitat
Lehmann's poison frog inhabits Colombia's rain forests. Although they are typically found on the ground, these frogs can occasionally be found in low shrubs and trees. Poison frogs depend on a wide variety of microhabitats in different life stages.
Simultaneously, private collectors in the United States and Europe generally agree that many regularly preserved poison frogs were first obtained illegally.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Lehmann's poison frog is an insectivorous species. They primarily eat insects and is active during the day. Second, changes in the amount of light in the forest can also affect an animal's look, that has been shown to be important for some lekking bird species' courtship behavior.
Lehmann's poison frog can breed successfully with Oophaga histrionicus in captivity.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss and collection for the pet trade, and the IUCN lists it as being "critically endangered". The introduction of invasive species, the overexploitation of wild populations, and the spread of infectious illnesses have all been connected to the trade in amphibians.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Lehmann's poison frog is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Lehmann's poison frog, Wikidata item Q28005123. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
