• Forscher entdecken totgesagte Art

    Experts had already declared him extinct. But after about a decade, this bizarre frog species was spotted again in Ecuador.
    Spiegel Online


  • Breeding the ‘Snot Otter’

    The gigantic Ozark hellbender salamander is in trouble in the wild, but one zoo — and a hard-working team — is helping to boost its populations. The two-foot-long salamanders that live in Missouri...
    The Revelator


  • Sartore retrata la fauna en peligro de extinción

    Un ejemplar de arlequín verrugoso de Morona Santiago (Atelopus halihelos), fue fotografiado para National Geographic Photo Ark en el Centro Jambatu. Esta especie está...
    El Comercio


  • Meet Romeo, 'world’s loneliest frog,' and his new mate Juliet

    New photographs reveal the critically endangered amphibians, which are native to a single stream in Bolivia. Romeo, the frog formerly known as the world’s loneliest, has joined...
    National Geographic


  • The loneliest frog on Earth finds love—and perhaps his species’s salvation

    For “Romeo” the Sehuencas water frog, the fate of his species could rest on his first date in more than a decade, BBC reports.
    Science


  • World's 'loneliest' frog gets a date

    A frog believed to be the last of his kind in the world has been granted a reprieve from solitude. Romeo, known as the world's loneliest frog, has spent 10 years in isolation at an aquarium in Bolivia.
    BBC


  • La rana con cuernos fue reencontrada

    La rana marsupial con cuernos fue vista por última vez en Ecuador en el 2005. Después de 13 años, en los que se creía que había desaparecido, fue nuevamente encontrada en una zona del Chocó ecuatoriano. Ahora se...
    El Comercio


  • How to ensure that new taxonomic names are properly published in electronic publication

    The Onion recently announced the discovery of a new species of ranid frog from Michigan, Lithobates michiganus. The species is...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • A new treefrog from Cordillera del Cóndor

    The Hyloscirtus larinopygion group is a clade of 16 species of large hylids that inhabit cascading Andean streams. They have brown coloration that, in most species, contrasts...
    ZooKeys


  • Variation in temperature preferences, affects susceptibility to chytridiomycosis in amphibians

    One outstanding debate in the chytrid literature is whether amphibians use behavioral thermoregulation to fight off...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Once thought extinct, bizarre horned frog reappears in Ecuador

    This strange frog, which incubates eggs on its back, disappeared for more than a decade before being rediscovered. Unseen for more than a decade, the enigmatic and...
    National Geographic


  • The critical need of museum collections

    We have entered a new epoch – the Anthropocene – in which human activities play a dominant role in governing Earth processes. Well-curated museum collections offer...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • The reproductive biology of the Myristica Swamp tree frog

    Described in 2013, Mercurana myristicapalustris is a rare frog species that has a limited range, inhabiting the once-widespread evergreen Myristica swamp forests...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Especie nueva (soltera) de cutín

    En los Andes del Ecuador, La Reserva Las Gralarias es una de las localidades mejor estudiada en cuanto a su batrachofauna. Sin embargo, como se espera en cualquier comunidad, algunas especies son raras y, por...
    Zootaxa


  • An interaction between climate change and infectious disease drove widespread amphibian declines

    Climate change might drive species declines by altering species interactions, such as host–parasite interactions. However, few studies...
    Global Change Biology


  • Haiti’s amphibians threatened by nearly complete loss of primary forest

    Haiti has experienced rapid deforestation. A new report in PNAS (Hedges et al. 2018) finds that forest cover was reduced to 4.4% in 1988...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Larval salamanders are as effective at short-term mosquito predation as mosquitofish

    As a disease vector, it is important to control mosquito populations. However, biological control with introduced mosquitofish (Gambusia...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Evolutionary melting pots and reproductive isolation

    Ring species, complexes of populations that differentiate genetically around a natural barrier, should be relatively common based on the large array of natural...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Plan de hábitat de anfibios, en riesgo por vandalismo

    La CGA analiza la posibilidad de reubicar una de las pozas e intervendrá en las otras nueve para garantizar la continuidad del proyecto ecológico. El hábitat de...
    El Tiempo


  • Bogotá: ranas en peligro de extinción que iban a ser traficadas a Alemania

    Algunas de las más de 200 ranas murieron por la brutalidad con las que fueron empacadas. Les rompieron los dedos porque no cabían en el empaque. En las...
    RCN


  • Bullfrog facilitates pathogen invasion

    Invasive species can harm native ecosystems by providing a pathway for pathogen invasion. For amphibians, the most devastating pathogen is the chytridiomycete fungus Batrachochytrium...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Uncovering hidden diversity in glass frogs

    The glassfrog Centrolene buckleyi has been recognized as a species complex. Herein, using coalescence-based species delimitation methods, we evaluate the specific diversity...
    PeerJ


  • Newly discovered population of Bumpy Glassfrog

    Since 2011, the Bumpy Glassfrog, Centrolene heloderma (Duellman, 1981) was known only from a single location in the Mindo region of Ecuador. We report a newly...
    Check List


  • Eco‐evolutionary rescue promotes host–pathogen coexistence

    The die-offs observed in the amphibian communities of Panama are a well-studied example of catastrophic Bd-related declines. Now that Bd (or Batrachochytrium
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Amphibian model organism

    Given the diversity of amphibian species, more amphibian model organisms are sorely needed to address fundamental questions in developmental biology, regeneration, toxicology, genetics, and human...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Monitoring of amphibians after a climate change‐ and infectious disease‐driven species extirpation

    Few long-term studies explore the effects of infectious disease and climate change on amphibians. A new study in the high alpine amphibian...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Parental care and reproductive behavior of Centrolene peristictum

    Estudiamos la biología reproductiva de Centrolene peristitum, una especie en peligro de extinción, dentro de un bosque nublado en el noroeste de los andes ecuatorianos (15 Diciembre...
    SA Journal of Herpetology


  • Macroevolutionary shift in the size of amphibian genomes

    Amphibians have some of the largest and smallest known genomes of all tetrapods. Liedtke et al. (2018) shows that, although genome size is incredibly variable across...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Carchi: Un hogar para dos anfibios

    La microcuenca del río Chinambí, localizada en el noroccidente de la provincia del Carchi, es el hogar de dos especies de anfibios: Atelopus coynei y Atelopus sp. aff. longirostris. Estas dos variedades de ranas,...
    El Comercio


  • Nueva especie de Scinax de Ecuador

    Scinax is a speciose genus of Neotropical hylid frogs. We describe a new species from western Ecuador (elevations between 0 and 1207 m) using morphology, vocalizations, and DNA sequences.
    PLoS ONE