A male Hyloscirtus sethmacfarlanei found on Cerro Mayordomo, a mountain in Ecuador.
The juveniles are bright yellow and they also exude an unpleasant substance from their skin.” The only female Hyloscirtus sethmacfarlanei found by researchers.
After collecting the first frog, Jost writes, “heir hands and fingers … started to itch and tingle, and the pain continued even several hours after they had put the frog down. In fact, the guides who found and collected them felt the effects firsthand. The frogs’ vibrant patterns likely serve as a warning sign of their toxicity, researchers say. “It took us these four years to find enough individuals to make a thorough description of it.”Īlthough only one female frog has been found, scientists assume all females of the species are black with red spots as no color variation is found within females of closely related species. “This is a very rare frog found only at high elevations in a remote part of Machay Reserve,” Lou Jost, president of EcoMinga Foundation, wrote in a blog post about the new frog. Scientists say they do not have enough data on the new frog species to assign a conservation status. The area, which is protected by EcoMinga’s Machay Reserve, is described as steep and relatively inaccessible and has not been well studied. So far, researchers have only found four individual frogs, all within a few square meters of ridgeline atop Cerro Mayordomo, a mountain on the edge of the Amazon Basin. The new species is described in the journal PeerJ. The frog was found by Darwin Recalde, a local field technician, as part of an expedition to catalog and protect species in the Andes led by the EcoMinga Foundation, a partner of Rainforest Trust. “It seemed perfect to name this frog, with its playful polka dots juxtaposed with its most likely threatened status, after Seth who is known more for his comedy than his dedication to science and conservation,” Rainforest Trust CEO James Deutsch said in a press release. film and television creator responsible for the show Family Guy and a long-time supporter of the NGO Rainforest Trust. The polka-dotted frog, it turned out, was new to science and has now been named Hyloscirtus sethmacfarlanei in honor of Seth MacFarlane, the U.S. On a mountaintop in Ecuador, a researcher spotted some spots. Six other new-to-science species of frogs have been found on Cerro Mayordomo alone.
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The frogs’ vibrant patterns likely serve as a warning sign of their toxicity, with researchers reporting burning and tingling skin after collecting the first specimen.All told, researchers have only found four individual frogs, all within a few square meters of ridgeline atop Cerro Mayordomo, a mountain on the edge of the Amazon basin. The frog was found as part of an expedition to catalog and protect species in the Andes.film and television creator responsible for the show “Family Guy.” A new-to-science frog species has been found in Ecuador and named in honor of Seth MacFarlane, the U.S.
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