Endangered
Telmatobufo bullocki
Telmatobufo bullocki
Telmatobufo bullocki is a frog in the family Calyptocephalellidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Chile, and is only known from a few locations in the Cordillera de Nahuelbuta, a part of the Chilean Coast Range. It occurs in fast-flowing streams in temperate Nothofagus forest. It occurs within the Nahuelbuta National Park.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The tadpoles are free-swimming and feed on algae growing on submerged rocks.
In crisis
It is threatened by siltation of streams caused by clear-cutting.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Telmatobufo bullocki 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 Telmatobufo bullocki, Wikidata item Q2240098. 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.
