Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Transparent ,see through glass frog

Transparent Glass frog is in news for its uniqueness.The transparent frog was discovered in Ecuador in 2009,it is an amphibian from the Centrolenidae family.The animal is often a transparent lime green making its heart, liver, and digestive visible through his skin.
The see through frog is of very little size ranging from 3 centimeters (1.2 in) to 7.5 centimeters (3.0 in) in length and can be found Mexico , Panama,Venezuela and Bolivia.The frog is known to eat its own young. They are green in color over most of their bodies, save for the skin along the lower surface of the body, which is translucent.Glass frogs are mostly arboreal. They live along rivers and streams during the breeding season, and are particularly diverse in montane cloud forests of Central and South America, although some species occur also in Amazonian and Chocoan rainforest and semi-deciduous forests.


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