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Multiple threats, including emerging infectious diseases, are contributing to the extinction of amphibians worldwide. One of the most devastating diseases is the fatal amphibian skin disease chytridiomycosis caused by the fungus  Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis  ( Bd ). The presence of  Bd  in North Africa was described in 2011 and this included the distribution range of the endemic Moroccan midwife toad ( Alytes maurus ). Here we report new  Bd  positive occurrences across several distant regions of Morocco, augment the known number of infected species, and describe the first evidence of lethal chytridiomycosis in  A. maurus . Although population declines in this species were not recorded, the family Alytidae has been identified as the most susceptible taxonomic group to chytridiomycosis of the Palearctic. An environmental niche model, taking into account new records of  Bd  in the country, confirms the Mediterranean coast and the Rif and Middle Atlas Mountains as very favourable areas for  Bd . Our results suggest that the real impact of chytridiomycosis in North Africa is poorly understood, and that this continent cannot be identified as a region less impacted by chytridiomycosis, as was previously proposed.

Fatal chytridiomycosis in the Moroccan midwife toad Alytes maurus and potential distribution of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis across Morocco