Despite global amphibian decline, number of known species soars

AmphibiaWeb’s 7,000th species is a high elevation glass frog from Manu National Park in Amazonian Peru. CalledCentrolene sabini, it was collected by Alessandro Catenazzi and his companions when he was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley. Catenazzi was first author of a paper describing the species that was co-authored by an international team of scholars including Rudolf von May of UC Berkeley, Edgar Lehr of Illinois Wesleyan University, Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia of the Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and Juan Guayasamin of the Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica in Quito, Ecuador. The frog is a small (31.2 millimeters long), delicate, beautiful animal that calls from trees above fast-flowing streams in humid, cool, montane forests at elevations around 2,800 m (about 9000 ft), Wake said.

Este hecho ha sido mencionado en algunos medios de comunicación como, por ejemplo, la Universidad de Berkeley:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/30/despite-global-amphibian-decline-number-of-known-species-soars/