This charismatic and fun character from The Muppets , the children's puppet series, has turned out to have a double in the real world, as the specimen of a new frog discovered in a Costa Rican jungle bears a striking resemblance to the character of the "Kermit the Frog" . The finding has been published in the journal Zootaxa .
Scientists have identified this new amphibian, which belongs to a new species of glass frog , which has been named Hyalinobatrachium dianae . The characteristics that define this species reside in its striking and showy eyes that contrast with a skin of an intense light green color and almost transparent in the abdominal area, which allows its internal organs to be observed quite clearly.
Those responsible for the discovery, Kubicki (founder of the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center ), Stanley Salazar and Robert Puschendorf, described six specimens in three different areas along the Caribbean foothills of Costa Rica at about 400-900 meters above sea level. from sea.
This new species of glass frog (named for its common semi-transparent skin peculiarity) differs from the others by a varied and exclusive combination of morphological, genetic and song characteristics . With this new amphibian, there are already 14 species of glass frogs that inhabit this Central American country bathed to the east by the Caribbean Sea and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.
