Telmatobius espadai

Telmatobius espadai
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Telmatobiidae
Genus:	Telmatobius
Species:	T. espadai
Binomial name
Telmatobius espadai De la Riva, 2005

Telmatobius espadai is a frog. It lives in Bolivia.

Home

Scientists saw this frog in streams in cloud forests high in the mountains. The scientists saw the frog between 3000 and 3500 meters above sea level. The frog spends some of its time on land.

Scientists saw this frog near one protected place: Parque Nacional Carrasco.

Danger

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in very big danger of dying out, with no more than 249 adult frogs alive at the same time. Many of the frogs died at about the same time. Many frogs died even though they lived in places that human beings had not changed. Scientists think that the fungal disease chytridiomycosis killed the frogs because it has killed many other kinds of frogs that live in mountain streams and because they found the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on some T. espadai frogs. Fish from other parts of the world, for example trout, can also kill this species. Also, human beings change the places where the frogs live to build farms, roads, dams, places for cows, and other things. Bad chemicals in water can also kill this frog.

First paper

• De la Riva I (2006). "Bolivian frogs of the genus Telmatobius (Anura: Leptodactylidae): synopsis, taxonomic comments, and description of a new species.". In E. O. Lavilla; I. De la Riva (eds.). Studies on the Andean Frogs of the Genera Telmatobius and Batrachophrynus. Vol. 7. Valencia: Asociacion Herpetologica Espanola, Monografias de Herpetologia. pp. 65–101.

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