Telmatobius colanensis

The Colan water frog (Telmatobius colanensis) is a frog.  It lives in Peru.

Body
The adult frog can be as big as 62.5 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back is gray or brown in color with small dark marks. The belly is yellow in color with gray or brown spots.

Home
Scientists saw this frog in exactly one place, high in the Cordillera Colán mountains. This frog spends some time in the water and some time on land. Scientists saw them in rocky streams in cloud forests. They saw it 2410 meters above sea level.

The frog lives in a protected place: Cordillera de Colán National Sanctuary.

People
People catch other frogs in Telmatobius to eat, sell, and make into medicine.

Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say they do not know whether this frog is in danger of dying out. People cut down too many trees. 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 fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on the frog yet.

First paper

References

Category:Frogs of South America