# Boana gladiator

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***Boana gladiator***, the **Cusco gladiator tree frog**, is a [frog](/source/Frog) in the family [Hylidae](/source/Hylidae) endemic to [Peru](/source/Peru), in Cusco and Puno. Scientists have seen it between 1,097 and 1,975 metres (3,599 and 6,480 ft) above sea level in [cloud forests](/source/Cloud_forest).[1][2]

The adult male frog measures 35.3 to 49.4 mm (1.39 to 1.94 in) long in [snout-vent length](/source/Snout-vent_length) and the adult female frog 47.8 to 55.3 mm (1.88 to 2.18 in). Like other gladiator tree frogs, the male Cusco gladiator tree frog has a spike on each front foot that he uses to fight other males. The female frog lays eggs in streams.[1]

This frog is listed as [vulnerable to extinction](/source/Endangered). This is largely because of [habitat loss](/source/Habitat_loss), but it is also subject to [chytridiomycosis](/source/Chytridiomycosis) from the [fungus](/source/Fungus) *[Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis](/source/Batrachochytrium_dendrobatidis)*. This illness thickens the frog's skin, which then sloughs off so that it can no longer [osmoregulate](/source/Osmoregulation). The concentration of [electrolytes](/source/Electrolyte) in the frog's blood drops, and the frog then dies of [cardiac arrest](/source/Cardiac_arrest).[1]

## References

1. Brandon LaBumbard & Alessandro Catenazzi (September 23, 2013). ["*Boana gladiator*"](https://amphibiaweb.org/species/7539). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved August 18, 2021.

1. ["*Boana gladiator* (Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, and De la Riva, 2010)"](https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Cophomantinae/Boana/Boana-gladiator). *[Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference](/source/Amphibian_Species_of_the_World_6.0,_an_Online_Reference)*. [American Museum of Natural History](/source/American_Museum_of_Natural_History). Retrieved August 18, 2021.

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