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In India, as frog species soar, so do battles over who found them.  Jacob P. Coshy in Mint:

Pretty much like the Indian economy, the number of new frog species in the country appears to have boomed. In the seven years ended 2007, 18 new species have been discovered from the Western Ghats – the largest find in any decade in the last 100 years…

… the spurt in discovery of new species of frogs in the Western Ghats has encountered a controversy, following a dispute over the veracity of one of the claims. It has, in its wake, raised questions on the process and the ethics, particularly with respect to the practice of killing the frogs to preserve a specimen associated with the discovery of a new species.

[Photo: India's smallest known frog yet]

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