LOOK - what a great discovery...!!! Scientists discover new species of legless amphibian in Cambodias Cardamom Mountains... Ichthyophis cardamomensis, is a caecilian, an order of limbless amphibians often mistaken for snakes, with larger species known to grow to 1.5 metres in length. This discovery, at only 30 cm, is linked to the continuing ground-breaking work at the Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC) in Phnom Penh, a joint initiative of Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). phys.org/news/2015-01-scientists-species-legless-amphibian-cambodia.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caecilian
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:24:37 +0000
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