Telmatobius atahualpai

The Amazonas water frog (Telmatobius atahualpai) is a frog.  It lives in Peru.

Body
The skin of the frog's back is black with green marks. The belly is gray. Some of its teeth look like fangs.

Home
Scientists saw this frog in streams in forests and some grassy places high in the Cordillera Central mountains. This frog spends some of its time in the water and some on land. It lives in streams. Scientists saw the frog under rocks in streams and on the ground in forests. They saw it between 2600 and 4000 meters above sea level.

This frog lives in one protected place, Río Abiseo National Park.

People
People catch other frogs in Telmatobius to eat, sell, and make into medicine. Scientists think people might eat T. truebae too.

Young
This frog has young in streams. Scientists saw tadpoles in fast-moving water.

Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in a little danger of dying out.  Human beings change the places where the frog lives to make places for animals to eat grass. 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  Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus on this frog yet.

First paper

References

Category:Frogs of South America