{{Short description|Species of amphibian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Speciesbox | name = Tarahumara frog | image = Rana tarahumarae.jpg | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref =<ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=James Rorabaugh, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Geoffrey Hammerson |date=2004 |title=''Lithobates tarahumarae'' |volume=2004 |article-number=e.T58731A11832982 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58731A11832982.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref> | status2 = G2 | status2_system = TNC | status2_ref =<ref name=NS>{{cite NatureServe |id=2.104866 |title=''Lithobates tarahumarae'' |access-date=15 March 2025}}</ref> | taxon = Lithobates tarahumarae | authority = Boulenger, 1917 | synonyms = ''Rana tarahumarae'' <small>Boulenger, 1917</small> }}

The '''Tarahumara frog''' ('''''Lithobates tarahumarae''''') is a species of frog in the family Ranidae found in Mexico and the southwestern United States, where it became regionally extinct in the early 1980s.<ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021" /><ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Lithobates/Lithobates-tarahumarae |title=''Lithobates tarahumarae'' (Boulenger, 1917) |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> Contributing factors include air pollution, chytridiomycosis and introduced species.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Rorabaugh |first=James C. |date=2020 |title=Reintroduction of the Tarahumara frog (Rana tarahumarae) in Arizona: lessons learned |journal=Herpetological Conservation and Biology |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=372–389}}</ref> Its natural habitats are streams and plunge pools in canyons in oak and pine–oak woodland, and foothill thorn scrub and tropical deciduous forest in the Pacific coast tropical area. Permanent water is necessary for reproduction.<ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021" />

In the early 2000s, wildlife managers reintroduced Tarahumara frogs to several of their historical locations in Arizona. This effort was largely unsuccessful due to the persistence of chytrid fungus in the environment, but refugium populations were established at chytrid-free sites outside their historical range (one at Kofa National Wildlife Refuge and another at the International Wildlife Museum).<ref name=":0" />

The Tarahumara are a well-known indigenous tribe from the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico.

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Category:Lithobates Category:Amphibians of Mexico Category:Amphibians of the United States Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Amphibians described in 1917 Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger

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