The Lago de las Minas frog (''Lithobates chichicuahutla'') is a species of
frog in the family
Ranidae. It is
endemic to the
Las Minas Lake (Lago de las Minas) in the
Oriental Basin
The Oriental Basin, also known as the Libres-Oriental Basin, Oriental-Serdán Basin or San Juan Plains (in Spanish, ''Llanos de San Juan'' or ''Cuenca de Libres-Oriental)'' is an endorheic basin in east-central Mexico. It covers an area of 4,958.60 ...
of
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
,
Mexico.
Its natural
habitat is vegetation surrounding the lake. It is threatened by deterioration in the quality of habitat surrounding the lake as well as the decline in lake surface level caused by groundwater extraction.
References
Lithobates
Endemic amphibians of Mexico
Tehuacán Valley matorral
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians described in 1996
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