Frog genus named after Rohan Pethiyagoda   Source: Financial Times SL Rohan Pethiyagoda In a paper published in the journal Zootaxa this week, an international team of scientists has named a new genus of diminutive Asian treefrogs in honour of Sri Lankan scientist Rohan Pethiyagoda.  The genus ‘Rohanixalus’ includes eight species, which range through Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, northeast India, and southern China. Led by Professor S. D. Biju and Dr Sonali Garg of the University of Delhi, the team includes leading scientists also from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Rohanixalus was discovered through a wide-ranging study of DNA, morphology and behaviour in Asian treefrogs, with one of the eight species becoming the first treefrog to be discovered in the remote Andaman Islands. Rohanixalus is also the first non-Sri Lankan genus of animals or plants to be named ...

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