#1950 · 🐸 amphibians
Strawberry Poison Dart Frog
🇳🇱 Aardbeikikker ·Oophaga pumilio
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jackcsmall · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Geoff Gallice · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © acpickard · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Geoff Gallice · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © geneise · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Shanelle Wikramanayake · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © acpickard · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © mario_mairal · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Reinier Munguia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Felipe Rabanal · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The strawberry poison frog or strawberry poison-dart frog ( Oophaga pumilio , formerly Dendrobates pumilio ) is a species of small poison dart frog found in Central America. It is common throughout its range, which extends from eastern central Nicaragua through Costa Rica and northwestern Panama. The species is often found in humid lowlands and premontane forest, but large populations are also found in disturbed areas such as plantations. The strawberry poison frog is perhaps most famous for its...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 11,321 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eduard Oscar Schmidt in 1857 (169 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Strawberry Poison Dart Frog
- Nederlands
- Aardbeikikker
- scientific name
- Oophaga pumilio
- class
- Amphibia
- order
- Anura
- family
- Dendrobatidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 11,321
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1857 by Eduard Oscar Schmidt
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Dendrobatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 66278, Wikidata Q786955, GBIF 2429135, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.