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Scientists recently described and named a frog species that is new to science. As part of the process of describing a new species, researchers must also give it a scientific and common name. After hearing a recording of local marimba bands, one musical style, known as currulao, caught everyone’s attention.
The frogs are small, roughly 0.7 inches long, and therefore, are easy to overlook. Previously, this frog had been confused with another local species of frog in the same genus, Epipedobates, but this new species has a yellow-orange blotch on the side of its body whereas this stripe is white-yellow on other frog relatives.
This new frog lives in dry and humid tropical forests from sea level to 1800m elevation across the Pacific lowlands and foothills of the western side of the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and northern PeruThis newly discovered poison frog may represent an evolutionary step on the pathway towards developing brilliant warning coloration associated with other poison dart frogs.
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