A Shape-Shifting Frog Found in the Andes (IMAGE)

Case Western Reserve University

A Shape-Shifting Frog Found in the Andes

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This image shows skin texture variation in one individual frog (Pristimantis mutabilis) from Reserva Las Gralarias. Note how skin texture shifts from highly tubercular to almost smooth; also note the relative size of the tubercles on the eyelid, lower lip, dorsum and limbs.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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