If you ask anyone living in the province of Bocas del Toro, to tell you about any Bocatoranian amphibian, most of the answers, if not all, will refer to the Strawberry Poison Dart Frog, Oophaga pumilio, or as we call it here, the Red Frog. And that is curious that is here, in Bocas, where we call it only the Red Frog because in the forests of Bocas del Toro there are many morphs or different color patterns of the same frog while in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (the other two countries were you can find Oophaga pumilio) the species has predominantly the same color pattern, with blue color in the hind legs and red covering the rest of their body and they call it the blue jean poison dart frog.

The frog coloration in Bocas del Toro can go from solid bright orange (the one that is found on site at Tranquilo Bay) to green, yellow, brownish and light or dark blue, with so many variations in the presence of dark spots and their size, color of the hind legs, belly color, …. but is here where people call it just the Red Frog.