Presented by
Ben Aviss
For 20 years these tiny frogs have been sat without a scientific name. Until now.
Meet Stumpffia kibomena – Madagascar’s newest species of frog.
This bright-bellied frog gets its name from the Malagasy words ‘kibo’ meaning ‘belly’ and ‘mena’ meaning ‘red’.
The new species has been described in a paper published in Zootaxa.
Lead author, Dr Frank Glaw from the Zoologische Staatssammlung in Munich, Germany recalled his first encounter: “When I found Stumpffia kibomena for the first time in early 1995, I was very excited about this beautiful discovery.
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