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This distinct species has been identified as far south as southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. [3] [4] On 30 October 2014, it was announced that the frog found in March 2012 has been described as a new species: the Atlantic Coast leopard frog (Lithobates kauffeldi) that once inhabited Manhattan, New York. [5] [6]
The Atlantic Coast leopard frog is one of several species of leopard frogs. Its species name, kauffeldi, is derived from the name of Staten Island herpetologist Carl Frederick Kauffeld, who in 1936 proposed that there could be a third species of leopard frog inhabiting the New York metropolitan area, specifically Staten Island. [7]
A new species of frog has been officially confirmed, close to 80 years after its existence was first theorized. The frog, Rana kauffeldi, is a type of leopard frog, and the process of establishing ...
Frog calls sound similar to boatswain whistle and tricorder from Star Trek series, researchers say
The Collinses' mountain chorus frog (Pseudacris collinsorum), which ranges from southwestern North Carolina/southeastern Tennessee south to most of Alabama aside from the north and west to northeastern Mississippi, was formerly thought to represent a population of P. brachyphona, but was described as a distinct species in 2020.
Hoskin discovered a new species of lizard: the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, or phyllurus fimbriatus. The nearly 6-inch-long gecko has a green-brown coloring, “spindly legs” and a ...
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The New Jersey populations are the largest currently recorded. [6] Although one specimen of D. andersonii is known from Richmond County Georgia, a population is not known to currently exist there. [5] [6] Dryophytes andersonii is the state frog of North Carolina.