Endangered
Telmatobius chusmisensis
Telmatobius chusmisensis
Telmatobius chusmisensis is a frog in the family Telmatobiidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Males measure 50–53 mm (2.0–2.1 in) and females 57–63 mm (2.2–2.5 in) in snout–vent length. Ground colour of dorsum is light brown or greenish brown, profusely spotted with minute, black spots. Belly is white or light yellow.
Tadpoles of Gosner stages 28–39 are large, from 38 to 99 mm (1.5 to 3.9 in) in total length and from 15 to 37 mm (0.59 to 1.46 in) in body length.
Range and habitat
As a species found in a generally arid area and confined to aquatic habitats, its distribution is naturally fragmented. It is endemic to northern Chile and is only known from a number of localities in the Tarapacá Region.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.
In crisis
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Telmatobius chusmisensis is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Telmatobius chusmisensis, Wikidata item Q3517403. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
