South African researchers find new bullfrog species in Namibia
Researchers from a South African university have discovered a new species of the African bullfrog identified as the fourth species of a bullfrog in the northeastern parts of Namibia.
The academics from the North West University in Potchefstroom said it’s the first new species to be discovered in Africa in more than a hundred years, and only the fourth species of a bullfrog ever identified in southern Africa, South Africa’s SABC reports.
The frog specie has been named Pyxicephalus Beytelli after the late Ben Beytell, Director of Parks and Wildlife Management in Namibia.
Zoologist Professor Louis du Preez of the North West University says this new species differs quite a lot from other bullfrogs.
Source: TRT AFRiKA
