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Kwamala RAP - NEW SPECIES
January 24, 2012 - Conservation International (CI) announced today the results of a scientific survey in southwest Suriname that documented nearly 1,300 species, including 46 species which may be new to science. The three-week survey, an initiative of CI’s long-standing Rapid Assessment Program (RAP), explored three remote sites along the Kutari and Sipaliwini Rivers near the village of Kwamalasumutu from August to September 2010, in an effort to document the region’s poorly known biodiversity and help develop sustainable ecotourism opportunities for the local people.
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Potentially new species: Pseudacanthicus sp. is a catfish whose armor (external bony plates) is covered with spines. The river it lives in is full of huge piranhas, so it must be well defended. One of the local guides was about to snack on this fish, until the experts preserved it as a scientific specimen. Only a handful of Pseudacanthicus specimens are known from Suriname, and this is the first from the Sipaliwini River. Discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org © Kenneth Wang Tong You PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Kenneth Wang Tong You must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new species: Imparfinis aff. stictonotus is a small catfish, only two inches long. Scientists caught it in a small, sandy stream in the Surinamese rainforest. They had to trek through dense jungle carrying heavy gear to find the stream where this new species occurred. This species was collected during Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org © Philip Willink PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Philip Willink must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new species of catfish: Pterodoras aff. granulosus is approximately two feet long. Scientists discovered it at night while sitting on a large rock in the middle of a big river. It is a predator, eating whatever will fit inside its mouth. This species was discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org © Philip Willink PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Philip Willink must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Possible new species: Hypsiboas sp. (nickname "cowboy frog") has white fringes along the legs and a spur on the heel. The frog was discovered low on a small branch during a night survey in a swampy area west of the RAP base camp at the Koetari River during Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org The discovery was made by Paul E. Ouboter, National Zoological Collection of Suriname. He is publishing a guidebook on Suriname’s amphibian species. For more information visit: www.brill.nl/publications/forthcoming © Paul Ouboter PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Paul Ouboter must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Possible new species: Hypsiboas sp. (nickname "cowboy frog") has white fringes along the legs and a spur on the heel. The frog was discovered low on a small branch during a night survey in a swampy area west of the RAP base camp at the Koetari River during Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org The discovery was made by Paul E. Ouboter, National Zoological Collection of Suriname. He is publishing a guidebook on Suriname’s amphibian species. For more information visit: www.brill.nl/publications/forthcoming © Paul Ouboter PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Paul Ouboter must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new species of katydid: Vestria sp. (male). Four species of this genus are known from lowland forests of Central and South America. These insects, nicknamed “Crayola” katydids because of their striking coloration, are the only katydids known to employ chemical defenses, which are effective at repelling bird and mammalian predators. This species was discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org © Piotr Naskrecki PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Piotr Naskrecki must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new species of damselfly - male and female of Argia sp. 1 (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) in tandem at Iwana Samu. Argia is the most speciose damselfly genus in the New World, and four of the eight species of this genus found during this RAP are new to science. The new species photographed here breeds in forest swamps and its adults perch on rocks, logs, and twigs close to water’s surface, and on leaves, twigs and on the ground along forest trails near swamps, usually on bare substrates in the sun. This species was discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org © Natalia von Ellenrieder PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Natalia von Ellenrieder must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new water beetle species: Oocyclus sp. This waterfall beetle from Venezuela is similar to a new species found on a granite inselberg (a type of mountain) in Suriname. This group of beetles only occurs in the waterfalls and wet rocks on mountains and rock outcrops. Most species are adorned with emerald and blue iridescence. This species was discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org © Andrew Short PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Andrew Short must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new water beetle species: Oocyclus sp. This waterfall beetle from Venezuela is similar to a new species found on a granite inselberg (a type of mountain) in Suriname. This group of beetles only occurs in the waterfalls and wet rocks on mountains and rock outcrops. Most species are adorned with emerald and blue iridescence. This species was discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. http://www.conservation.org

© Andrew Short

PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted.

REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Andrew Short must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new water beetle species: Oocyclus sp. This waterfall beetle from Venezuela is similar to a new species found on a granite inselberg (a type of mountain) in Suriname. This group of beetles only occurs in the waterfalls and wet rocks on mountains and rock outcrops. Most species are adorned with emerald and blue iridescence. This species was discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. www.conservation.org © Andrew Short PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted. REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Andrew Short must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
Potentially new water beetle species: Oocyclus sp. This waterfall beetle from Venezuela is similar to a new species found on a granite inselberg (a type of mountain) in Suriname. This group of beetles only occurs in the waterfalls and wet rocks on mountains and rock outcrops. Most species are adorned with emerald and blue iridescence. This species was discovered by scientists working with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program in southwest Suriname in August and September 2010. http://www.conservation.org

© Andrew Short

PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded at no charge for one-time use for coverage/promotion of the press release titled “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” by Conservation International. No copying, distribution or archiving permitted. No sublicensing, sale or resale permitted.

REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to © Andrew Short must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to the press release. Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice and caption referencing the press release “An Armored Catfish, a ‘Cowboy Frog’, and a Rainbow of Colorful Critters discovered in Southwest Suriname” are subject to paid licensing.
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