Scientists discover new species of “chocolate frog” in New Guinea

It's a species that, unlike what land habitats prefer, lives in trees and is known for its green skin color, but this was called chocolate because of its specific brown color.

THE most familiar relative of this species of frogs (good literature) is the Australian green frog. Both species look very similar, but one is green, and this newly discovered species is chocolate, ” said Paul Oliver, near the Centre for Global Health and Food Safety, which described the discovery in a paper published in Australian zoology magazine.

Australia and New Guinea were connected to continental land over a long period of late tercier, 2.6 million years ago, but now New Guinea is dominated by rain forests, and North Australia is dominated mainly by savanna.

Green frogs (Cerulea Litoria) that live in trees can be found throughout northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. The “Chocolate Bracket” was discovered in 2016 and is believed to live throughout New Guinea.

Steve Richards, near the Museum of South Australia, pointed out that it is difficult for scientists to study this species of amphibites because it lives in very warm, swampy areas where crocodiles live.

We have called the new frog “We gave him that name because we were surprised to discover an amphibious very much like Australian frogs living in trees, but they are of different colors than we are used to”, Oliver explained.

He noted that understanding the biotic exchange between New Guinea and Northern Australia is essential to fully understanding how the area of rain forests and savanna expands and decreases.