[3] The tadpoles begin gray or brown-black in color and slowly gain some yellow pigmentation in some areas as they age, for example over the eyelids and on the growing forelimbs.

It has also been introduced to the vicinity of Tarapoto in the San Martín Region but the result of this introduction is unknown.

[1] The frog's known range includes one protected area: Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul.

He then carries them on his back to a suitable ephemeral pool or water-filled crevice where the tadpoles develop until undergoing metamorphosis.

It lacks the more potent batrachotoxin alkaloids that have been observed in other poison dart frogs.

Human beings convert forest to cattle grazing space, legal farms (such as tea plantations), and illegal cropland.

The past fifteen years have seen losses from the international pet trade, despite laws protecting the frog from capture and sale.