Telmatobius verrucosus

The Chaco water frog  (Telmatobius verrucosus) is a frog.  It lives in Bolivia.

Home
This frog spends most of its time in water. It frog lives in streams in cloud forests and other forests and in ceja de montaña, and sub-páramo places. People see these frogs under rocks. Scientists saw it between 2600 and 3800 meters above sea level.

Scientists think this frog might live in Parque Nacional Cotapata and in the Cordillera Apolobamba.

Young
The tadpoles are good at living in streams where the water moves fast.

Danger
Scientists say this frog is in very big danger of dying out. Many of the frogs disappeared not long ago. Some of them disappeared even though human beings had not changed their homes. Scientists think it could be the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which has killed many other kinds of frogs. Scientists found the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which causes chytridiomycosis, on T. verrocosus frogs in 1996 and again in 2004. Human beings also change the places where the frog lives and put bad chemicals in the water.

First paper

References

Category:Frogs of South America