{"id":110141,"date":"2021-06-02T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=110141"},"modified":"2021-06-05T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:21:56","slug":"litoria-mira-a-chocolate-frog-species-found-in-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/litoria-mira-a-chocolate-frog-species-found-in-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Litoria Mira&#8221; \u2014 A Chocolate Frog Species found in New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>A research team led by Griffith University has discovered a new <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/du-prof-finds-new-frog-species-in-aravalis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frog Species<\/a> in New Guinea. It has been named <strong>Litoria Mira.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Litoria Mira:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110205\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frog.jpeg?resize=317%2C330&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frog.jpeg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frog.jpeg?resize=288%2C300&amp;ssl=1 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: &#8211; Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Litoria Mira or chocolate frog <\/strong>is a tree frog belonging to the genus Litoria.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Name: <\/strong>Litoria is the genus of the common tree frog, and Mira comes from Latin mirum which means strange or surprised.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When was it discovered?<\/strong> The frog was first discovered in 2016 in the rainforest swamps of New Guinea. However, it took years to complete the genetic analysis and found out that it is a completely new tree frog species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Litoria Mira can be distinguished<\/strong> from all other Litoria. It has a unique combination of moderately large size, webbing on hand, relatively short and robust limbs, and small violet patch of skin on the edge of its eyes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, it was found that the litoria Mira <\/strong>looks similar to the Australian green tree frog. However, there is only one difference, the former is usually green while Litoria Mira usually has chocolate coloring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Why do chocolate frogs<\/strong> <strong>and Australian green tree frogs look similar?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Australia and New Guinea used to be linked by land for much of the late Tertiary period (2.6 million years ago) and share many biotic elements.<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, today the island of New Guinea<\/strong> is separated from the \u2018horn\u2019 of Queensland by the Torres Strait. New Guinea is dominated by rainforest, and northern Australia by the savannah.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hence, the two frog species<\/strong> have now evolved to become genetically distinct to a point where they will not be able to breed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/litoria-mira-frog-species-7338983\/\"><strong>Indian Express <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? A research team led by Griffith University has discovered a new Frog Species in New Guinea. It has been named Litoria Mira. About Litoria Mira: The Litoria Mira or chocolate frog is a tree frog belonging to the genus Litoria. Name: Litoria is the genus of the common tree frog, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/litoria-mira-a-chocolate-frog-species-found-in-new-guinea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Litoria Mira&#8221; \u2014 A Chocolate Frog Species found in New Guinea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,4182,9],"tags":[1316],"class_list":["post-110141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}