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Hyloscirtus tolkieni, commonly known as the Río Negro stream frog, is a recently described (2023) species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, where it has been observed at 3190 meters above sea level.
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Philautus macroscelis is a newly discovered species of bush frog, distinguished by its distinct physical features, including particular proportions of limbs and body that assist in its identification. Its conservation status raises concerns due to its restricted range and potential susceptibility to habitat destruction in Borneo.
A new species of frog has been officially confirmed, close to 80 years after its existence was first theorized. The frog, Rana kauffeldi, is a type of leopard frog, and the process of establishing ...
Litoria naispela, also known as the Crater Mountain treehole frog, is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. It was described in 2023 by Australian herpetologist Stephen Richards and his colleagues Stephen Donnellan and Paul Oliver. The specific epithet naispela is a Tok Pisin term meaning ‘beautiful’ or ‘attractive’. [2]
Long considered to comprise southern populations of the stuttering frog (M. balbus), it was not recognised as a new species until 2023, when a phylogenetic study found it to be deeply divergent from M. balbus and thus described it as a new species. [2] The distributions of the northern and southern stuttering frogs are separated by the Macleay ...
The population of the mountain chicken frog, once abundant in the Caribbean, has dropped by over 99% in 20 years due to a deadly fungal disease.
Rhacophorus spelaeus, the cave-dwelling tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. Scientists know it exclusively from the type locality , a limestone cave in Laos , 140 meters above sea level.