Amphibia · Anura
Oophaga speciosaSchmidt, 1857
Splendid Poison Frog
Photograph by Brian Gratwicke, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons
A day-active frog reaching 31 mm snout to vent.
Also called splendid poison arrow frog.
Amphibia › Anura › Dendrobatidae › Oophaga
- Grows to
- 31mm
- greatest recorded
- Active
- Diurnal
- Lives up to
- 3.6years
- Lives
- Arboreal, terrestrial
Longer than 84% of all species in Dendrobatidae anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 13.4 to 50 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
16 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Conservation status
- Extinct
The animal itself
- Longest recorded life
- 3.6years
Slavens and Slavens, 1999. Reptiles and Amphibians in Captivity: Breeding - Longevity and Inventory, Slaveware, 400 p.
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 31mm1.25 in
snout-to-vent length, as this source reports for Anura
How it lives
- Eats arthropods
- Yes
- Eats vertebrates
- Unknown
- Eats plant matter
- Unknown
- Active
- Diurnal
- Where it lives
- Arboreal, terrestrial
a blank flag in this source means unrecorded, not absent
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- How the young develop
- Through a larval stage
- Average clutch
- 8.5
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 1–16eggs
- Clutches in a year
- 1per year
midpoint of the reported range — Oliveira, São-Pedro, Santos-Barrera, Penone, and Costa, 2017, Sci. Data, 4:170123
Naming and history
- Described by
- Schmidt
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- Yes
- Described in
- 1857
Keeping one
Splendid Poison Frog is assessed as Extinct on the IUCN Red List. No living animal is known. Anything below describes what was recorded of the species while it existed, and it is here because a reference that quietly drops a species it has lost is a worse record than one that keeps it.
No housing, water or temperature figure is given for this species. What is recorded about the animal stays on this page above; advice on keeping one does not, because there is none to keep.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Still living
- — Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · greatest
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Diet
- — How it hunts
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Venomous
- — Fangs
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Limbs
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- — Population trend
- — Red List criteria
- — Region
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Suborder
- — Infraorder
- — Subspecies
- — Type locality
- — Habitat
- — Active in
- — Mainland or island
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
- — Highest it lives · above sea level
- — Range size
Others in Dendrobatidae
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This species as JSON · the whole dataset
Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Oophaga speciosa. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/oophaga-speciosa
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- Oliveira, B.F. et al. (2017). AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4:170123. Used under CC BY 4.0.
- Moura, M. R. et al. TetrapodTraits: a database of 33,281 tetrapod species. Used under CC BY 4.0. Observed values only; this encyclopedia does not publish its imputed predictions.
- GBIF Secretariat. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Used under CC BY 4.0. Common names aggregated from constituent checklists.
- Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.