Vicente's poison frog

Appearance

The adult male and female frogs are 12 to 24 mm long in snout-vent length. This frog is known for its striking coloration, that has made it a target for collection for the international pet trade. The skin of the frog's back can come in any of several background colors, such as yellow, red, blue, gray, or green.

Range and habitat

This frog inhabits humid tropical lowland and montane rainforests, where it has been observed between 4 and 912 meters above sea level. Vicente's poison frog is a frog in the family Dendrobatidae that is endemic to the Veraguas and Coclé Provinces of central Panama.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Vicente's poison frog breeds in arboreal vegetation. When the female approaches the pool to lay this trophic egg, the tadpole will swim and vibrate near the surface.

When she submerges herself to lay the egg, the tadpole may bump into her. The tadpoles are obligate egg-eaters and do not consume any other food.

In crisis

The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered because of its small range, that is subject to ongoing degradation.

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.

Vicente's poison frog is 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 Vicente's poison frog, Wikidata item Q28053309. 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.