New Glass Frog Species Discovered in Costa Rica
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iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JOSE, Costa Rica) — A new glass frog species has recently been discovered in Costa Rica — and it looks like a real-life Kermit the Frog.
The last new glass frog found in Costa Rica was described over four decades ago in 1973, according to the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center (C.R.A.R.C.).
The C.R.A.R.C. described the new species, Hyalinobatrachium dianae, in a paper published in the zoology taxonomy journal Zootaxa.
Six specimens of the new amphibian were collected from three different tropical wet forest and rainforest sites in the Caribbean foothills of Costa Rica, the C.R.A.R.C. wrote.
The H. dianae is different from other known glass frogs “due to its unique combination of morphological characteristics, advertisement call, and genetic distance,” the C.R.A.R.C. said.
The C.R.A.R.C. was established by Brian Kubicki in 2002, according to the center’s website.
Kubicki, who authored the paper on the discovery, named the new frog, H. dianae, after his mother, Janet Diane Kubicki, the C.R.A.R.C. said.
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