Telmatobius marmoratus

Appearance

Among 16 adult T. Marmoratus from Isla del Sol, the largest had a snout-vent length of 7.5 cm (3.0 in).

Range and habitat

This semiaquatic frog is found in and near streams, rivers, waterfalls, lakes and ponds. The most widespread species in the genus, it is found in the Andean highlands of Bolivia, northern Chile and southern Peru. It may also occur in northwestern Argentina, but the taxonomic position of this population is unclear.

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

The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered, but it is not threatened in all parts of its range. In Chile, the frog is not threatened. Scientists have the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on the frog, and they believe the fungal disease chytridiomycosis threatens this frog.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Telmatobius marmoratus 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 marmoratus, Wikidata item Q2209854. 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.