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A clerical error caused misidentification of frog specimen that once stood for an entire species
December 15, 2025

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec. 15 -- The University of Kansas posted the following news:

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A clerical error caused misidentification of frog specimen that once stood for an entire species

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LAWRENCE Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a slipup from decades ago: the misidentification of a poison frog specimen from Peru used as a holotype. A holotype is an individual preserved s . . .

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