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Number of species threatened worldwide

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1. Madagascar 🇲🇬

2. Ecuador 🇪🇨

3. Indonesia 🇮🇩

4. Mexico 🇲🇽

5. Brazil 🇧🇷

6. Malaysia 🇲🇾

7. United States 🇺🇸

8. Australia 🇦🇺

9. Philippines 🇵🇭

10. Colombia 🇨🇴

Source: IUCN

Los traventinos son formaciones geológicas formadas por acumulación de carbonato de calcio en un proceso milenario
Esta montaña está hecha de traventinos
No es sal, ni de hielo, sino piedra caliza
Turquía, Pamukkale

This poison frog from the Amazon basin reproduces in bromeliads and other plants that accumulate rainwater
Their tadpoles are cannibals. They feed on eggs or tadpoles deposited on the plant where they live.
#Ranitomeya variabilis
More information: bioweb.bio/faunaweb/amp...

La apertura carreteras tiene efecto devastador en las áreas protegidas
Miren lo que pasó en el Parque Sangay (celeste) con la vía Guamote-Macas
Quieren abrir una en los Llanganates, uno de los parques con mayor diversidad y endemismo del Ecuador ✋⛔🚫

7/7 Collaboration of
QCAZ Museum of the PUCE
the Natural History Museum of Berlin,
Natural History Museum of London
and the NGOs Tesoro Escondido and Jocotoco Congratulations to Sarah Bock and Talía Arroba for leading this beautiful work The publication is available at: tinyurl.com/j3aap56k

6/7 This map shows the geographical distribution of the new species. It is likely that they are also distributed in Colombia.

5/7 The Cecilia Tesoro species is named after the NGO Tesoro Escondido, for its efforts to protect the last remnants of humid tropical forest of the Chocó of Ecuador
The yellow color of this new species is very unusual among caecilias

4/7 This scan-CT shows the new species, Caecilia truncata
It was discovered hidden in the collections of the QCAZ Museum in Quito and then in the Candé Reserve of the Jocotoco foundation
It is closely related to C. volcani, from Panama, but its genetics confirm that it is a different species

3/7 This discovery was possible thanks to the use of DNA, scans-CT and morphology The scans-CT revealed characteristics never seen before of these animals This skull shows huge fangs in double rows, in both jaws The caecilias are predators of worms and other underground animals

2/7 🐍❌ Cecilias are not snakes. Although they may seem so, these fascinating creatures are amphibians adapted to underground life. Without legs, with moist skin and skin breathing, they are one of the least known groups of vertebrate animals. This is an Amazonian species.

1/7 🌿 Exciting news from the Ecuadorian Chocó! For the first time in 50 years, we describe two new species of caecilias from Ecuador (gen. Caecilia) The new species have extraordinary characteristics, as can be seen in this video