Description

Its natural habitats are submontane tropical rainforests. It is threatened by habitat loss and collection for the pet trade, and the IUCN lists it as being “critically endangered“. It was named after Colombian conservation biologist Federico Carlos Lehmann.

Description Oophaga lehmanni Red for sale

There are red, orange and yellow morphs of this  frog. The background colour is black or dark brown which contrasts with the two bright, broad bands of colour round the body and further coloured bands on the limbs.

Oophaga lehmanni 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. Leaf litter and phytotelmata, for example, serve as primary breeding sites, shelters, and nurseries for poison frogs; in addition to being defendable resources for territorial species, they provide more stable temperature and humidity conditions than open areas with little canopy.

Stream noise appears to be a selective force strong enough to promote micro-geographic divergence in calls despite the counteracting effect of genetic flow at the micro-geographic scale.

In addition to making high-frequency sounds, certain species of frogs living in noisy environments were also considerably smaller. These findings provide credence to a hitherto unrecognized function of noise on streams as a selection force encouraging a rise in call frequency and pleiotropic changes in body size.