''Telmatobius atahualpai'' (common name: Amazonas water frog) is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

in the family Telmatobiidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the Cordillera Central of northern

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

and found in the San Martín and

Amazonas Region Amazonas may refer to: Places * Amazon River, known as ''Amazonas'' in Spanish and Portuguese *Amazonas (Brazilian state), Brazil *Amazonas (Colombian department), Colombia *Amazonas (Peruvian department), Peru *Amazonas (Venezuelan state), Venez ...

s at asl. ''Telmatobius atahualpai'' occur in humid subalpine

páramo Páramo () may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems located in the Andes Mountain Range, South America. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". A narrower ...

where these frogs live under rocks at the edge of small streams. Threats to this little known species are not well known.

References

atahualpai Amphibians of Peru Amphibians of the Andes Endemic fauna of Peru Páramo fauna Amphibians described in 1993 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Telmatobius-stub