Telmatobius niger

The black water frog or black Kayla water frog (Telmatobius niger) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador.^[2][3][1]

The adult male frog is about 69.1 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 69.4 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is the color of coffee with darker marks. The belly can be cream in color with black spots or yellow and orange in color with dark or gray marks. The iris of the eye is dark gray in color. Different frogs can have different colors.^[3]

This frog lives in cloud forests, scrubland, grassy places, and evergreen forests. It lives near streamsand rivers. People see adult frogsunder rocks and near small plants. Scientists saw it between 2238 and 4110 meters above sea level.^[2][3][1]

Scientists have seen this frog in many protected parks, but they are not sure if the frog is still there now: Parque Nacional Sangay, Área de Conservación Ecológica Siete Iglesias, and Parque Nacional Cajas.^[1]

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in very big danger of dying out, and they might all be dead now. Human beings changed the places where the frog lived to make farms and other things. Climate change could also hurt this frog. Many frogs died from fungal diseases, for example chytridiomycosis, and from other diseases, for example worm diseases. Scientists think climate change could have made these diseases worse. People sometimes catch this frog to eat.^[1]

Scientists from the IUCN say that scientists should catch this frog to keep with humans and have tadpoles. Then the scientists could put the new adult frogs back in the frogs' home.^[1]