Colostethus latinasus

Colostethus latinasus
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Genus:	Colostethus
Species:	C. latinasus
Binomial name
Colostethus latinasus (Cope, 1863)
Synonyms
Phyllobates latinasus Cope, 1863 Colostethus latinasus Cope, 1866 Colostethus latinosus Cope, 1874 Phyllobates latinasus Barbour and Noble, 1920

The Truando rocket frog (Colostethus latinasus) is a frog. It lives in Colombia and Panama.

Home

This frog is awake during the day. It lives on mountains in forests that have never been cut down. Scientists saw the frog between 1200 and 1475 meters above sea level.

One of the places this frog lives is a protected park: Parque Nacional Darién.

Young

The female frog lays eggs on the dead leaves on the ground. After the eggs hatch, the adult frog carries the tadpoles to streams where they swim and grow.

Danger

Scientists say this frog is in big danger of dying out. They say it is not good at living in places that human beings have changed. However, people do not cut down its forest because it is high in the mountains and hard for human beings to go to and because the government of Panama made the forest a park. But people start fires on lower hills, which spread into the mountains. Climate change could hurt this frog because it lives in the mountains. Animals that live in mountains cannot move to colder places because they would have to climb down into warmer places first.

Scientists believe the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis killed most of these frogs. B. dendrobatidis causes the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.