The smallest frog in the Old World!
The smallest frog in the Old World!
Scientists have discovered the smallest frog for 3 continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa! Male frogs are only 10.6 to 12.8 mm long (the females are almost twice as long). This remarkable creature lives on the side of the Gunung Serapi mountain in Borneo. Zoologist named this creature Microhyla nepenthicola.
They’re not the world’s smallest frog, however: That record is currently held by two 9.8-mm-long amphibians in the New World, the gold frog in Brazil and the Monte Iberia dwarf frog
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http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/08/scienceshot-the-smallest-frog-in.html
Scientists have discovered the smallest frog for 3 continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa! Male frogs are only 10.6 to 12.8 mm long (the females are almost twice as long). This remarkable creature lives on the side of the Gunung Serapi mountain in Borneo. Zoologist named this creature Microhyla nepenthicola.
They’re not the world’s smallest frog, however: That record is currently held by two 9.8-mm-long amphibians in the New World, the gold frog in Brazil and the Monte Iberia dwarf frog
See more information
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/08/scienceshot-the-smallest-frog-in.html