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Elusive Frog Alsodes vittatus Found Again After 130 Years

Elusive Frog Alsodes vittatus Found Again After 130 Years

by Responsible herpetoculture - Apr. 17, 2025
The frog Alsodes vittatus

A team of scientists from the University of Concepción and the University of Valparaíso in Chile released a blog about their discovery of the frog Alsodes vittatus on March 11, 2025. Lead author Claudio Correa, renewable natural resources engineer Edvin Riveros Riffo and biologist Juan Pablo Donoso, published their study on March 6, 2025, in the peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys.

The frog was first spotted in 1893. Philibert Germain, a French entomologist, discovered the frog at the former Hacienda San Ignacio de Pemehue in La Araucanía region in Chile.

According to the study, Alsodes vittatus is “one of the rarest and most elusive amphibians from Chile.

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