Telmatobius brachydactylus

The Amable Maria frog or Junín riparian frog (Telmatobius brachydactylus) is a frog.  It lives in Peru.

Home
This frog spends most of its time in water.  This frog lives in streams near Lake Junin and other nearby places, but it does not live in the lake, only the streams. Scientists saw it between 4000 and 6000 meters above sea level.

Scientists saw this frog in Reserva Nacional de Junin.

Danger
Scientists from the IUCN and Peru say this frog is in danger of dying out. People change the places where the frog lives to make farms and to get things to use. Bad chemicals and climate change can also kill this frog. People let animals eat grass near the frog's home. Trout from other parts of the world can kill and eat T. brachydactylus. People clean mud and plants out of canals so that boats can float on them. This can also hurt the frog. Fish from other parts of the world can kill and eat this frog, and human beings let their animals drink from the frog's homes. Scientists think the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis could kill the frog by giving it the disease chytridiomycosis, but they have not seen the fungus on T. brachydactylus yet.

The High-Andean Frog Conservation through Capacity-Building Program watched this frog. The USAID Small Project Assistance grants paid for it. 

References

Category:Frogs of South America