Telmatobius edaphonastes

Telmatobius edaphonastes is a frog.  It lives in Bolivia.

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This frog spends some time in the water and some time on land. Scientists saw this frog in streams in cloud forests high in the Cordillera Oriental mountains. They saw it between 2480 and 2600 meters above sea level.

Scientists saw the frog in one protected place: Parque Nacional Carrasco. They believe it may also live in Parque Nacional Amboró.

Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in very big danger of dying out. The last time scientists saw the frog was in 1999, so they think they might all be dead now. They say there are no more than 249 adult frogs alive at a time. Human beings change the places where the frog lives by building dams for electricity, farms, and towns and by cutting down trees to get wood to build with. Scientists believe the fungal disease chytridiomycosis might kill this frog too because it has killed other frogs in Telmatobius. They found the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on one frog in this species in 1989.
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Category:Frogs of South America