India, Nov. 20 -- Around 13 new species of bush frogs were discovered based on samples collected between 2016 and 2024, the latest edition of Vertebrate Zoology, a scientific journal by the Museum of Zoology in Dresden, Germany, published on Thursday.

The new species were discovered by Bitupan Boruah and Abhijit Das of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), and V. Deepak of the UK-based Natural History Museum and Newcastle University, based on 204 specimens collected from 81 locations across eight northeastern states.

"This is the highest number of vertebrate species described in a single publication in over a decade in India. Before this study, there were 82 species of bush frogs known from India, of which 15 are from the northeast," D...