• A taxonomic review of the genus Hemiphractus

    Revisamos la situación taxonómica de las poblaciones de ranas del género Hemiphractus en Panamá, las cuales han sido referidas a Hemiphractus fasciatus Peters, 1862 durante...
    Zootaxa


  • Evidence for urea-nitrogen recycling in Amphibia

    Nitrogen balancing in amphibians is important for osmoregulation, cryoprotection, and metabolic inhibition. In some vertebrates, gut bacteria aid this balance by...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Sensitive high-frequency hearing in harlequin frogs Atelopus

    Harlequin frogs, genus Atelopus, communicate at high frequencies despite most species lacking a complete tympanic middle ear that facilitates high-frequency hearing...
    Journal of Exp. Biology


  • Frog jumps caught in slow motion

    Hopping and jumping are among the most characteristic ways that most living frogs get around. While some features of the skeleton that are associated with this form of locomotion can be gleaned from...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • The world’s largest amphibian is being bred to extinction

    The world’s largest amphibian—the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus, pictured)—should be split into at least five species, all of which are critically endangered in the wild...
    Science


  • Terrario mostrará la biodiversidad de ranas del Ecuador

    La rana arlequín de Limón, que se desarrolla en los bosques del suroriente del Ecuador, es la especie que predomina en el terrario de anfibios que presentó el...
    El Telégrafo


  • Ecuador conoce solo el 5% de su biodiversidad

    La Senescyt aprobó un presupuesto de $ 2 millones para investigar los recursos. El objetivo es que el privilegio natural del que goza el país sirva para potenciarlo. Hoy se...
    El Telégrafo


  • Nueva especie de Cutín de la Cordillera del Cóndor

    Se describe una especie nueva de rana terrestre de mediano tamaño del género Pristimantis de los bosques montanos de la Cordillera del Cóndor, sureste de Ecuador, a...
    Cuad. Herpetol.


  • Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

    A multinational research team (O’Hanlon et al. 2018) has concluded that the infamous chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians (Bd) likely originated on the Korean...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • The whloe genome of Nanorana parkeri opens a new era of genomics

    One of the first frogs to have its whole genome sequenced is Nanorana parkeri, a Tibetan frog that breeds at elevations from 2,800 m to almost 5,000 m, making it perhaps...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Científicos identifican y descubren especies en Ecuador con un laboratorio de análisis molecular portátil llevado en una mochila

    Un equipo de científicos de las Universidades de Berkeley, Tecnológica Indoamérica y Stanford...
    GigaScience


  • Nueva especie de Pristimantis del Parque Nacional Sangay

    Describimos una nueva especie de rana terrestre Pristimantis de los Andes sur de Ecuador. La nueva especie se caracteriza por la presencia de procesos dentígeros...
    Avances en Ciencias...


  • The tadpole of Epipedobates darwinwallacei

    The trans-Andean genus Epipedobates comprises seven species, of which tadpoles have been described for five. Herein, we describe the tadpole of...
    South American Journal...


  • A striking new genus and species of cave-dwelling frog

    Many new species result from splitting existing species; novel, distinctive frogs are rare. An exception is Siamophryne troglodytes, a new genus and new...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Map-like navigation in the three-striped poison frog

    There is mounting evidence that most amphibians are pretty good at finding their way home. Recently, Pašukonis et al. (2018) strapped tiny radio transmitters to Three-striped...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Nueva especie de rana de Cajas, Ecuador

    Describimos una nueva especie de Pristimantis desde las laderas orientales del macizo El Cajas en los páramos andinos del sur de Ecuador a 3400 m.s.n.m. Esta nueva especie...
    Zookeys


  • Host resistance to the chytrid fungus of amphibians

    Amphibians in Panama have experienced declines for over a decade due to the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Diversity within diversity: parasite species richness in poison frogs

    Poison frogs use toxins against vertebrate predators, bacteria and mosquitoes. Effectiveness of these toxins against endoparasites (e.g., trypanosomes) is unknown...
    Molecular Phylogenetics..


  • Poor dispersal ability of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

    In the race to prevent the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (or Bsal), a fungal pathogen deadly to salamanders, scientists have been investigating its ecology and...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Wound-healing polypeptides

    Cathelicidins are a family polypeptides, known for their antimicrobial properties, that are found in immune and skin cells. About 30 cationic peptides have been isolated in various vertebrates...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • eDNA surveying for early detection of chytrid fungus

    The high elevation, relatively pristine lakes of the southern Sierra Nevada (California, USA) has been the scene of massive frog die-offs from chytridiomycosis caused by the...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Species limits within the Amazonian treefrog Dendropsophus parviceps

    The genus Dendropsophus is one of the most speciose among Neotropical anurans and its number of described species is increasing. Herein, molecular, morphological, and...
    Zookeys


  • Limb regeneration in plethodontid salamanders

    Among vertebrates, adult salamanders are unique in their ability to regenerate complex tissues, such as limbs. The model organisms for limb regeneration are the...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Human use is an important part of biodiversity survey work

    Biodiversity survey work is a critical step to assess and monitor the state of amphibians in any given area, even protected ones. A herpetology survey conducted by Shrestha and Shah...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Peptides in frog poisons are a molecular toxin against predators

    Frogs have evolved mechanisms that enable systemic delivery of toxic antimicrobial peptides (secreted in their skin), which are sufficiently fast-acting to evade predation. A new...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • The fossorial tadpoles of Micrixalidae from India

    Until 2016, the tadpoles of the frog family Micrixalidae had not been described. In their study, Senevirathne et al. (2016) provide the first in-depth description of...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Adiós a una de las pioneras en el estudio de las ranas en Colombia

    La bióloga María Cristina Ardila, quien formó a varias generaciones de estudiosos de los anfibios y los reptiles, falleció la semana pasada. El 2018 iba a ser un año especial para...
    El Espectador


  • 26 new species from Madagascar

    New species of amphibians continue to be described at a rate of about 2.9 species per week! Many of the newly discovered species lay eggs that develop directly without tadpoles and they typically have small to...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans and the risk of a second amphibian pandemic

    Chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease (EID) caused by two fungal pathogens, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Natural history and conservation of the rediscovered Hula painted frog

    The Hula Painted frog, Latonia nigriventer, was the first frog to be declared extinct by the IUCN in 1996. First discovered in 1940 in the Hula Valley, presently in northern Israel
    AmphibiaWeb