{"id":2369,"date":"2017-09-06T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2017-09-06T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:11:13","slug":"dice-phd-student-discovers-new-frog-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/09\/06\/dice-phd-student-discovers-new-frog-species\/","title":{"rendered":"DICE PhD student discovers new frog species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/current-students\/research-students\/dice\/k-o\/menezes-barata_izabela.html\" target=\"_blank\">Izabela Menezes-Barata<\/a> has discovered a new frog species in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The species was discovered whilst searching for new populations of the endangered frog\u00a0<em>Crossodactylodes itambe<\/em>\u00a0in the Brazilian mountaintops. The search was guided by Izabela&#8217;s research which indicates potential areas for the occurrence of new populations. Four mountains were visited and frogs were found in one of these locations. However, DNA results have \u00a0confirmed that what was found was not a new population of\u00a0<em>Crossodactylodes itambe<\/em>, but a whole new species of\u00a0<em>Crossodactylodes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The as-yet-unnamed species\u00a0was found in a single forest at a mountaintop, isolated from other forest patches. The area is covered by the Atlantic Rainforest and bromeliads are located inside the forest, growing on the ground and also on trees. With smaller hands and red fingertips, the new frog lives in a small, patchy area at 1700 m above sea level.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crossodactylodes<\/em>\u00a0are small-ranged, bromeliad-dwelling frogs that live on highlands in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest.\u00a0They\u00a0are threatened with extinction but there is little\u00a0information available to evaluate threats to the species. Researchers will now work on species description to validate the record and start a project on the ecology and population dynamics of Izabela&#8217;s new find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Izabela Menezes-Barata has discovered a new frog species in Brazil. The species was discovered whilst searching for new populations of the endangered frog\u00a0Crossodactylodes itambe\u00a0in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/09\/06\/dice-phd-student-discovers-new-frog-species\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6599,124,70,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}