Several new species of clawed frog discovered in sub-Saharan Africa

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Dec 18, 2015, 1:40 pm220 pts
There are now 29 known species of African clawed frog. Researchers in west and central sub-Saharan Africa say they’ve discovered six new species of the frog and added another, Xenopus calcaratus, back to the list of known species (it had previously been lumped in with a close relative, X. tropicalis). The…

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