- November 5, 2013
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- by marcos
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This snouted tree frog (Scinax sp.), one of six potentially new frog species discovered during a recent expedition to Suriname, represents the newest member of a diverse genus of very agile, fast-moving frogs with over 100 species. One individual leapt right onto the table during dinner at camp, and still nimbly eluded the numerous scientists clustered about.
It was one 1,378 species identified–as many as 60 of them new species–in the rainforest-clad mountains of Southeastern Suriname, South America, during a first-ever survey by international biologists of an area Conservation International described as “a wilderness area virtually without any human influence and among the most remote and unexplored tracts of rainforest left on Earth.”
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