The La Coca form of auratus are found on the Pacific coast of Panama. This new locality showed up in the US in 2022 roughly. These remarkable frogs are one of the more beautiful forms of auratus I’ve seen, and check all the boxes for me, in terms of a desirable form of auratus, in that they are large, highly variable, beautiful, and quite visible in the terrarium.
They also share a trait that is seen in some forms of auratus, but not many other types of dart frogs, which is that they display ontogenetic coloration changes, or to put it in plain English, they change appearance through their lifespan. The primary manifestation of this is that the bronze or brown areas between the green or bluish coloration lightens as they age.
We haven’t had these La Coca in captivity long enough to know how this will turn out in the end, but in some other forms of auratus this can be dramatic, with the lighter areas turning a creamy white or light bronze color. Time will tell, but juveniles will definitely be darker colored than the adults they will turn into. The green coloration will also change in some of them, and occasional specimens turn out a bit bluish.
So far, they have bred for me relatively easily, so despite being somewhat pricey and rare at this point, they are still a great beginner frog.
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