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Newly discovered species of stream-living lizard
A male Potamites sp., a newly discovered species of stream-living lizard, in its natural habitat in the cloud forest of Manu National Park in Peru. A team of researchers compiled a list of 155 amphibian and 132 reptile species, including a handful of species new to science, that live in the park and its surrounding areas.
[This research was supported in part by U.S. National Science Foundation grants DEB 1120283 and DBI 1103087.]
Learn more about this research in the UC-Berkeley news story Peru's Manu National Park sets new biodiversity record. (Date of Image: January 2009; date added to Multimedia Gallery: 6/26/2015)
Credit: Alessandro Catenazzi, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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