Kurixalus viridescens, a new tree frog species found in Vietnam. Photo: Nguyen Thien Tao
A team of Vietnamese and Japanese scientists discovered a
new species of tree frog in Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa and Lam Dong provinces.
They named the creature Kurixalus viridescens.
It was found in Hon Ba Nature Reserve in the south-central province of
Khanh Hoa and Bi Doup-Nui Ba National Park in the Central Highlands
province of Lam Dong.
The discovery was
published in a September issue of Current Herpetology - the official
English journal of the Herpetological Society of Japan.
Japan’s Masafumi Matsui
and Vietnam’s Nguyen Thien Tao and Hoang Minh Duc said they described
the frog as a distinct species because it is divergent genetically and
morphologically from all known congeners.
The species differs from
the other congeners due to an immaculate green dorsum, which is usually
maculated gray to brown in the other species.
With this new species,
Vietnam is now home to seven species of Kurixalus, and can be regarded
as the center of speciation of the genus, they said.-READ MORE-http://www.thanhniennews.com/education-youth/new-tree-frog-species-found-in-vietnam-31376.html
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