Global InformationTelmatobius culeus information
| Telmatobius culeus | |
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| Individual from the captive breeding program at Prague Zoo | |
Conservation status
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 Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Telmatobiidae |
| Genus: | Telmatobius |
| Species: | T. culeus
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| Binomial name | |
| Telmatobius culeus (Garman, 1876)
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| Synonyms | |
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Telmatobius culeus, commonly known as the Titicaca water frog or Lake Titicaca frog,[1] is a medium-large to very large and endangered species of frog in the family Telmatobiidae.[3] It is entirely aquatic and only found in the Lake Titicaca basin, including rivers that flow into it and smaller connected lakes like Arapa, Lagunillas and Saracocha, in the Andean highlands of Bolivia and Peru.[4][5][6] In reference to its excessive amounts of skin, it has jokingly been referred to as the Titicaca scrotum (water) frog.[7]
It is closely related to the more widespread and semiaquatic marbled water frog (T. marmoratus),[8][9] which also occurs in shallow, coastal parts of Lake Titicaca,[10] but lacks the excessive skin and it is generally smaller (although overlapping in size with some forms of the Titicaca water frog).[5]
- ^ a b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Telmatobius culeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T57334A178948447. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T57334A178948447.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Stuart, S.; M. Hoffmann; J. Chanson; N. Cox; R. Berridge; P. Ramani; B. Young, eds. (2008). Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Edicions. pp. 101, 410–419. ISBN 978-84-96553-41-5.
- ^ Lee, D.; A.T. Chang (17 January 2019). M.S. Koo; K. Whittaker (eds.). "Telmatobius culeus". AmphibiaWeb, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ Vellard, J. (1992). "The Amphibia". In C. Dejoux; A. Iltis (eds.). Lake Titicaca: a synthesis of limnological knowledge. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 449–557. ISBN 0-7923-1663-0.
- ^ Gill, V. (12 September 2013). "Blobfish wins ugliest animal vote". BBC News. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ Victoriano, Pedro F.; Muñoz-Mendoza, Carla; Sáez, Paola A.; Salinas, Hugo F.; Muñoz-Ramírez, Carlos; Sallaberry, Michel; Fibla, Pablo; Méndez, Marco A. (2015). "Evolution and conservation on top of the world: Phylogeography of the marbled water frog (Telmatobius marmoratus species complex; Anura, Telmatobiidae) in protected areas of Chile". Journal of Heredity. 106 (S1): 546–559. doi:10.1093/jhered/esv039.
- ^ De la Riva, Ignacio; García-París, Mario; Parra-Olea, Gabriela (2010). "Systematics of Bolivian frogs of the genus Telmatobius (Anura, Ceratophryidae) based on mtDNA sequences". Systematics and Biodiversity. 8 (1): 49–61. doi:10.1080/14772000903526454.
- ^ Cossel, J.; Lindquist, E.; Craig, H.; Luthman, K. (2014). "Pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in marbled water frog Telmatobius marmoratus: first record from Lake Titicaca, Bolivia". Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 112 (1): 83–87. doi:10.3354/dao02778.