| Telmatobius yuracare | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Telmatobiidae |
| Genus: | Telmatobius |
| Species: | T. yuracare |
| Binomial name | |
| Telmatobius yuracare De la Riva, 1994 | |
The Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare) is a frog. It lives in Bolivia.
This frog spends most of its time in the water. Scientists saw this frog in streams, rivers, and ponds in cloud forests high in the Cordillera Oriental mountains. They saw it between 2050 and 2990 meters above sea level.
Scientists saw the frog in one protected place: Parque Nacional Carrasco. They believe it may also live in Parque Nacional Amboró.
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in very big danger of dying out and that there are only a few frogs left. The scientists from the IUCN say there are no more than 49 adult frogs alive at a time. Human beings change the places where the frog lives by building dams for electricity, farms, and towns and by cutting down trees to get wood to build with. Trout fish from other parts of the world can also kill this species. Scientists believe the fungal disease chytridiomycosis might kill this frog too because it has killed other frogs in Telmatobius. They found the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on some frogs in this species in 1990.
