Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Telmatobiidae > Telmatobius > Telmatobius culeusTelmatobius culeus (Titicaca Water Frog)Synonyms: Cyclorhamphus culeus; Telmatobius albiventris; Telmatobius albiventris globulosus; Telmatobius albiventris parkeri; Telmatobius albiventris punensis; Telmatobius crawfordi; Telmatobius crawfordi crawfordi; Telmatobius crawfordi semipalmatus; Telmatobius culeus albiventris; Telmatobius culeus crawfordi; Telmatobius culeus culeus; Telmatobius culeus dispar; Telmatobius culeus escomeli; Telmatobius culeus exsul; Telmatobius culeus fluviatilis; Telmatobius culeus globulosus; Telmatobius culeus lacustris; Telmatobius culeus parkeri; Telmatobius culeus punensis; Telmatobius escomeli; Telmatobius escomeli crawfordi; Telmatobius escomeli escomeli; Telmatobius escomeli exsul Telmatobius culeus, commonly known as the Titicaca water frog, is a very large and critically endangered species of frog in the family Telmatobiidae. It is entirely aquatic and only found in Lake Titicaca and rivers that flow into this lake in South America. While the lungs are greatly reduced, this frog has excessive amounts of skin, used to help the frog respire in the high altitude in which it lives. In reference to its excessive amounts of skin, it has also jokingly been referred to as the Titicaca scrotum water frog. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 11.76 EDGE Score: 5.32 |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) |  | Litter Size [1] | 500 | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 6 inches (14.6 cm) |
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Central Andean puna |
Argentina, Bolivia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Central Andean wet puna |
Peru, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data. ♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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