New Species of Frog named after 3-year-old girl

New Species of Frog named after 3-year-old girl

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< Sylvia's Tree Frog was identified by researcher Andrew Gray. Gray works as a researcher at the University of Manchester and set out to prove that the new frog was not a Splendid Tree Frog. He chose to name the newly identified species after his granddaughter.



This frog species has been confused with a similar looking one since 1925, but now researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered it is in fact its own species!

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New Species of Frog named after 3-year-old girl