Telmatobius hintoni

Telmatobius hintoni
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Telmatobiidae
Genus:	Telmatobius
Species:	T. hintoni
Binomial name
Telmatobius hintoni Parker, 1940
Synonyms
Telmatobius hintoni Parker, 1940 Telmatobius marmoratus hintoni Vellard, 1951 Telmatobius hintoni De la Riva, 2005

Telmatobius hintoni is a frog. It lives in Bolivia.

Home

This frog spends almost all its time in the water. It lives in streams that stay streams all year and do not dry up. It lives high in the Andes Mountains. Scientists saw this frog between 2700 and 4400 meters above sea level.

Scientists have seen this frog in one protected park: Parque Nacional Tunari.

Young

The male frogs call to the female frogs from underwater or from rocks. They do not have to climb out of the water to call to female frogs.

Scientists think that the male frogs guard the eggs but they are not sure. Scientists saw male T. hontoni frogs fight each other, but they are not sure if they fought to protect the eggs or not.

Danger

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in some danger of dying out. Human beings changed the places where the frog lived to make farms, towns and other things. People also put bad chemicals in the water and take water to use. Scientists have found the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on this frog. B. dendrobatidis causes the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which has killed many frogs in South America.

First paper

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

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