The truth about a true frog: Unknown Costa Rican frog hidden amongst a widespread species
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
Known to science since 1857, a common species of frog found from north-eastern Honduras through to central Panama, turns out to have been keeping its 'multiple identities' a secret. According to herpetologists who recently used DNA barcoding on the species, showed that what we currently call Warszewitsch's frog is indeed a group of 'cryptic' species.