Scientists From Palacký University Discovered Six New Frog Species in Panama

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Six previously unknown species of frogs from the Dendrobatidae family have been discovered and scientifically described in Panama by members of an international research team led by Milan Veselý from the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University (UP) in Olomouc. The researchers focused on frogs that had long been classified in Panama as Colostethus pratti, originally described from Colombia.

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Olomouc scientists discovered six previously unknown species of frogs from the family of forest frogs during a research stay in Panama. Although the newly described species are strikingly similar at first glance, their evolutionary history is different, an international research team led by Milan Veselý from the Department of Zoology at the Faculty of Science in Olomouc has found. They are representatives of the genus Colostethus, which, unlike …