Lehmann's poison frog | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Dendrobatidae |
Genus: | Oophaga |
Species: | O. lehmanni
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Binomial name | |
Oophaga lehmanni (Myers and Daly, 1976)
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Synonyms[2][3] | |
Dendrobates lehmanni Myers and Daly, 1976 |
Lehmann's poison frog or the red-banded poison frog (Oophaga lehmanni) is a species of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae endemic to a small part of western Colombia.[2] 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".[1] It was named after Colombian conservation biologist Federico Carlos Lehmann.