New Jelly-Bean-Size 'Masked' Frog Discovered in the Andes

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Yahoo News (USA) August 9th, 2015 10:44 AM: New Jelly-Bean-Size 'Masked' Frog Discovered in the Andes

A tiny new frog species discovered in the Peruvian Andes has a white-mottled belly and a dark face mask that makes it look like a bandit. Noblella madreselva lives in the humid cloud forest near Cusco, Peru, probably only in the valleys right around where it was discovered, researchers report today (Aug. 6) in the journal ZooKeys. Vanessa Uscapi, a biologist at the National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cusco, Peru, discovered the new tiny frog in January 2011, but only now has it been officially described.


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