Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world's largest tropical rainforest but until nowa vegetarian piranha and a flame-patterned lizard are among more than 400 new species of animals and plants that have been discovered in the past four years in the Amazon rainforest, conservationists say.
All new animals to science includes 258 plants, 84 fish, 58 amphibians, 22 reptiles, 18 birds and one mammal. This tally does not include discoveries of insects.Some species may be lost just as they have been discovered, scientists warned. The thimble frog has been given a Latin name (Allobates amissibilis) meaning "that may be lost",
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