One-hit wonder frog makes a comeback in the southern Philippines
One-hit wonder frog makes a comeback in the southern Philippines by Leilani Chavez on 1 March 2021 A pair of Filipino biologists have rediscovered Pulcharana guttmani, a rare Philippine stream frog first collected by biologists in 1993 and never seen again until now. Experts consider the blue-bellied frog among the rarest in the Philippines; the sole specimen was only described as a new species in 2015, more than 20 years after its collection. Its close resemblance to the more common granducola has hidden P. guttmani from science, eluding even herpetologists and Indigenous guides. Very littl...
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