Telmatobius vellardi

Vellard's Kayla or Vellard's water frog (Telmatobius vellardi) is a frog.  It lives in Ecuador.

Name
Scientists named the frog for Jehan Vellard, who worked at the Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de San Marcos in Lima, Peru.

Body
The adult male frog is about 62.2–72.9 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 78 mm long.  The skin of the frog's back is yellow-brown or olive green in color with black or dark brown spots and marks. The belly is gray, light yellow, light green, or light brown with yellow spots or a gray pattern. The sides of the body are yellow in color with some gray or light brown. The iris of the eye is gray or olive-green in color with black marks. Some frogs have other colors: A dark brown head and body with many yellow spots, more toward the sides of the body. These frogs have lighter sides and lips. The tops of the legs are dark brown. The skin between the toes is light gray. The irises of their eyes is mixes of different grays. In some frogs, the belly is a mix of white and gray.

Home
This frog lives near streams and rivers in forests and places with small, woody plants on mountains. Scientists saw this frog between 2500 and 3050 meters above sea level.

Scientists think the frog might live in Parque Nacional Podocarpus.

People
People catch frogs in Telmatobius to eat.

Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in big danger of dying out. Diseases, for example the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, can kill this frog. So can roundworm parasites and other diseases. Human beings also change the places where the frog lives to make farms, get wood to build with, make places for animals to eat grass, and make towns.

References

Category:Frogs of South America