Alsodes cantillanensis

The Cantillana spiny-chest frog (Alsodes cantillanensis is a frog.  It lives in Chile.

Body
One adult male frog was 45.9 mm long from nose to rear end and one adult female frog was 44.2 mm long. The male frog is yellow to dark gray in color with a light triangle shape on its head. The female frog is red to orange in color with a read-orange triangle on its head. The triangles are between the eyes and nose. There is dark color on the face. There is a thin yellow line near the spine on the back. The belly is white with white spikes on the chest. The toes of all four feet are white in color. The top of the iris of the eye is gold-yellow-white in color and the bottom of the iris is black in color.
Name

Scientists named this frog for Altos de Cantillana, a place near Santiago, Chile. The frog lives there.

Home
This frog lives in forests with Nothofagus plants. People found them under rocks in streams and in dead leaves on the ground under logs.

Scientists belive more than half of these frogs live on in protected place: San Juan de Piche Nature Sanctuary.

Scientists have seen this frog between 729 and 850 meters above sea level.

Young
Scientists believe this frog hatches out of its egg as a tadpole, like other frogs in Alsodes.

Threats
Scientists say this frog is in very big danger of dying out. People digging gold out of the ground and forest fires can hurt this frog, and people change the places where the frog lives to make farms and places for animals to eat grass.

First paper

References

Category:Frogs of South America