| Telmatobius necopinus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Telmatobiidae |
| Genus: | Telmatobius |
| Species: | T. necopinus |
| Binomial name | |
| Telmatobius necopinus Wiens, 1993 | |
Weins' water frog (Telmatobius necopinus) is a frog. It lives in Peru.
The adult male frog can be as big as 71.4 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog can be 72.9 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is brown in color with yellow-brown marks and no bumps. The belly is olive-gray in color. The iris of the eye is bronze in color with black lines.
This frog spends some time in the water and some time on land. Scientists saw this frog in exactly one place, high in the Cordillera Central mountains. Scientists saw them under rocks in streams in cloud forests and next to roads. They saw it 2050 meters above sea level.
The frog lives in a protected place: Alto Mayo Protection Forest.
People catch other frogs in Telmatobius to eat, sell, and make into medicine.
Scientists from the IUCN say they do not know whether this frog is in danger of dying out. Scientists believe the fungal disease chytridiomycosis might kill this frog too because it has killed other frogs in Telmatobius, but they have not seen the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on the frog yet.
