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strawberry poison-dart frog
Oophaga pumilio
10.1906, -83.2805
Field Notes
Description:
A diurnal and mostly terrestrial frog of humid lowland and premontane forest, cacao plantations, and abandoned forest clearings. Males appear to be fiercely territorial; individual territories have been estimated at 2.5 m2 (Donnelly, 1983). The general coloration of Oophaga pumilio consists of a red body (occassionally blue) with red, blue, purple, or black hind legs (STRI 2011)
Habitat:
This species' geographic range is the Atlantic versant, humid lowlands, and premontane slopes in eastern central Nicaragua (0-940m asl) south through the lowlands of Costa Rica and northwestern Panama (including many islands in Bocas del Toro), from 1-495m asl (Savage, 2002).
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