Batrachophrynus brachydactylus is an endangered

Endangered species

An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters...

 species of frog

Frog

Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...

 in the Leptodactylidae

Leptodactylidae

Leptodactylidae is a diverse family of frogs that probably diverged from other hyloids during the Cenozoic era, or possibly at the end of the Mesozoic. There are roughly 50 genera, one of which is Eleutherodactylus, the largest vertebrate genus, with over 700 species...

 family. This semi-aquatic

Aquatic animal

An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...

 frog is endemic to tributaries of Lake Junín

Lake Junín

Lake Junín, known as Lago Junín in Spanish and Chinchaycocha in Quechua, is the largest lake entirely within Peru. Even though Lake Titicaca has a much larger area, its eastern half is located on Bolivian territory...

 (not in the lake itself) in central Peru

Peru

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

, where found at altitudes of 4000–4600 m (13,123.4–15,091.9 ft). It is threatened by capture for human consumption. Although a fairly large species, it is smaller than the closely related and equally threatened Lake Junin Giant Frog

Lake Junin (Giant) Frog

The Lake Junin Giant Frog or Lake Junin Frog is a very large and endangered species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. It is endemic to altitudes of in the Andes of Junín and Pasco in central Peru...

(B. macrostomus).