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New species of fanged frog found in the Philippines • Earth com

05-05-2021 By Earth.com staff writer In a new study led by The University of Kansas, scientists describe a new species of fanged frog that has been discovered in the Philippines. The Mindoro Fanged Frog was distinguished from a nearly identical species through its unique mating call. Study lead author Mark Herr is a doctoral student at the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum.  “This is what we call a cryptic species because it was hiding in plain sight in front of biologists, for many, many years,” said Herr. “Scientists for the last 100 years thought that these frogs were just the same species as frogs on a different island in the Philippines because they couldn’t tell them apart physically.” 

Genetic Testing Identifies New Species of Fanged Frog in the Philippines

Close New species of frog has been discovered in the Philippines and while it may look no different from other species in the nearby islands, its distinct mating call and differences in genome make it a fantastic find. In their study, A New, Morphologically Cryptic Species of Fanged Frog, Genus Limnonectes (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae), from Mindoro Island, Central Philippines in the journal Ichthyology & Herpetology, researchers from the University of Kansas described the fanged frog as a cryptic species . This is because the frog was concealing itself from biologists for so many years, said KU Biodiversity Institute doctoral student Mark Herr, the study author in a Phys.Org feature.

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