New Species Discovered in the Greater Mekong Brochure

For instance, one of This page: the species highlighted in this report is © Peter Geissler Discoveries of new species, like the ones a plant that was collected in the 1930s highlighted in this report, help to fill and only recently confirmed to be a novel the knowledge gap about what exists in species by a new team of researchers. [...] The discovery of new species every year highlights the importance of the remaining natural ecosystems and the interest of biological explorers in the Greater Mekong. [...] The discoveries bring the total number of species in the Dario genus to eight, found in freshwater NEW SPECIES DISCOVERIES IN THE GREATER MEKONG 2021-22 26 PSILORHYNCHUS MAGNAOCULUS LIMNONECTES BAGOYOMA 2021 2021 ENDEMIC TO MYANMAR ENDEMIC TO MYANMAR The bamboo forest Bago Yoma frog is one of two new stream frogs discovered in the Bago region of Myanmar. [...] Plugging the gap: description of a new Around 180 species have been recognized, and the 021-09997-6 Akysis species represents a new record of the genus from the Mae Klong drainage in western Thailand number is increasing all the time. [...] The discovery further underscores the Prior to this discovery, the distance between this sister species (Anura: Bufonidae) from the poorly explored mountainous elevations at which the species is found, between 300m and rich unexplored biodiversity of the region and the need for and the next closest species from this genus - A.