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Appleby's Asian Leaf Litter Toad Leptolalax applebyi

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Appleby's Asian Leaf Litter Toad, Leptolalax applebyi, is a new species of frog from central Vietnam named after Robert Appleby, a generous supporter of biodiversity conservation and scientific capacity building in Asia. Discovered by Dr Jodi Rowley and her Vietnamese colleague Cao Tien Trung, this tiny two-centimetre frog spends most of its time hiding under leaf litter, and was only discovered after hours searching the forest floor for a faint cricket-like calling heard intermittently in a small patch of forest.

Rowley, J.J. L. & T. T. Cao. 2009. A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from central Vietnam. Zootaxa.2198: 51–60.

Photographer:
Jodi J. L. Rowley
Rights:
© Jodi J. L. Rowley/Australian Museum
Common name:
Appleby's Asian Leaf Litter Toad
Scientific name:
Leptolalax applebyi
Family:
Megophryidae
Order:
Anura
Location:
Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

Additional information

Check out the video story on the Wall Street Journal about the discovery of Appleby's Asian Toad by Jodi.

Last Updated: 21 September 2011

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Finton Mahony STAFF

Finton Mahony
9.01 AM, 19 January 2010

Cool!

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