世界上最小的青蛙
Pea-sized fog found on Borneo island
According to liuxuepaper.com, on August 26, scientists have discovered a fog of the size of a pea called Microhyla nepenthicola in a national park in Malaysia’s Sarawak state on Borneo island. It is the smallest frog found in Asia, Africa or Europe.
据国外某网站8月26日报道，科学家在婆罗洲岛上的马来西亚砂劳越的一家国家公园发现一只只有豌豆大小的青蛙。这只叫“Microhyla nepenthicola”的青蛙又名“豌豆青蛙”，是迄今为止在亚洲、非洲和欧洲发现的最小青蛙。
世界上最小的青蛙在铅笔上
作文地带整理英文全文介绍：
One of the world's tiniest frogs - barely larger than a pea - has been found living in and around carnivorous plants on Borneo island, one of the scientists who made the accidental discovery said Thursday. Sci
Indraneil Das, a scientist at University Malaysia Sarawak, said he and another scientist from Germany were doing field research on frogs in Malaysia's Sarawak state on Borneo island when they chanced on the tiny species on the edge of a road leading to the summit of a mountain in the Kubah National Park in 2006.
"For biologists, this is a curiosity," Das told The Associated Press.
The frogs were named Microhyla nepenthicola after the pitcher plant species where they live, Das said. A Malaysian museum had listed the species but misidentified it as juveniles of another frog species, he said.
The tubular plants are carnivorous, killing insects such as ants, but do not harm the frogs. Tadpoles grow in the liquid inside the plants.
Adult males of the amphibians range in size between 0.42 inches (10.6 millimeters) to 0.5 inches (liuxuepaper Note:12.8 millimeters), Das said.
The findings were published by Das and Alexander Haas of the Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum of Hamburg, Germany in peer-review journal Zootaxa last week after they completed their research on the frogs.
世界上最小的青蛙在一枚硬币上
Das said because the frogs were so small, he and his colleague only found them by tracking their singing of "harsh rasping notes" at dusk. They caught them by making them jump on a white cloth near the pitcher plants.
He added that the discovery should encourage efforts to protect the biological diversity in Borneo's rain forests.
Das said the tiniest known frog found was in Cuba, with its size of at least 0.39 inches (9.8 millimeters).
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