Thanks to National Geographic’s website for extending the details of this  news we first shared here:

…The spectacular haul more than doubles the number of Indian dancing frogs, a family named for the bizarre courtship displays of their foot-waving males, to 24 species.

The diminutive amphibians—which measure 13 to 35 millimeters long—were found during a decade-long search across the Western Ghats, a mountain range that extends north-south across India for 990 miles (1,600 kilometers).

The study was led by India’s frog discoverer-in-chief, University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das Biju, whose numerous past finds include the extraordinary purple frog. (Related: “Weird Purple Frog Seduces Females From Underground.”)

Identified using both physical features and analysis of molecular DNA markers, the frogs are described by Biju and his team in the latest issue of the Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences)...

Read the whole article here.