Allobates mandelorum

The Mount Turumiquire rocket frog (Allobates mandelorum) is a frog. It lives in Venezuela.

Allobates mandelorum
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Genus:	Allobates
Species:	A. mandelorum
Binomial name
Allobates mandelorum (Schmidt, 1932)
Synonyms
Phyllobates mandelorum Schmidt, 1932 Prostherapis trinitatus mandelorum Rivero, 1961 Prostherapis mandelorum Donoso-Barros, 1966 Colostethus mandelorum Edwards, 1971 Allobates mandelorum Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006

Home

This frog lives near streams in cloud forests and places with woody plants smaller than trees. Scientists saw the frog between 1900 and 2630 meters above sea level.

Scientists have seen this frog in many protected parks, for example Macizo de Turmiquire Protective Zone of Rivers.

Young

Scientists think that the female frog lays her eggs on the ground and that, after the eggs hatch, the male frog carries the tadpoles to water.

Danger

Scientists say this frog is in danger of dying out. The biggest danger is changes to the places where the frog lives from fires and when people make farms, places for animals to eat grass, and roads. The chemicals that people put on farms can also hurt this frog. People take water from streams to put on farm plants. Some scientists think that the fungal disease chytridiomycosis could also kill this frog.