Thrilled to announce the description of one of the largest #frogs in #Madagascar, Mantidactylus rada
Thrilled to announce the description of one of the largest #frogs in #Madagascar, Mantidactylus radaka! It took a lot of sleuthing, including sequencing 120-year-old specimens, to be able to confidently describe this #newspecies! Its description was important, however, because these are among the frogs that are eaten by people in Madagascar, and they may be at risk of local over-harvesting, in additional to ongoing #deforestation and #habitatloss.You can find a link to get the PDF of the paper at http://www.markscherz.com/publications ......#science #taxonomy #systematics #museomics #taxonomcis #research #Mantidactylus #naturalhistory #herpetology #wildlife #animals #zoology #Mantellidae #rainforest #frog #diversity #peerreview #vertebrate #highthroughputsequencing #illumina #radaka #Malagasy #Sahonahttps://www.instagram.com/p/B_2LtWGgGyv/?igshid=ozlvb95cl13c -- source link
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