• Effect of climate change on distribution of species of common horned frogs in South America

    Our main objectives were to verify the effect of climate change on distribution of frogs of the family Ceratophryidae and if the legal...
    PLoS ONE


  • Effects of pathogens (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, B. salamandrivorans, ranaviruses) on amphibian hosts

    Disease-causing pathogens are significant contributors to amphibian population declines. A recent...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Force‐transmitting structures in the digital pads of the tree frog Hyla cinerea: a functional interpretation

    Langowski et al. (2018) revealed new insights on the biomechanics of how frogs attach to (and detach from) surfaces by examining the toe...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Las ranas mueren y es por el cambio climático

    Frøerne dør, og det er klimaforandringernes skyld. Frømassakren i Ecuador (El nuevo asesino en Ecuador). El cambio climático provocado por el hombre...
    Koncentrat


  • Review of the genus Cruziohyla (Anura: Phyllomedusidae), with description of a new species

    The presented work summarises new and existing phenotypic and phylogenetic information for the genus Cruziohyla. Data based on...
    Zootaxa


  • First record of Pristimantis rufioculis (Duellman & Pramuk , 1999) from Ecuador

    A male specimen of P. rufioculis was collected on may 21, 2017, at the locality Campanilla, San Carlos, Province of Zamora Chinchipe, on...
    Herpetozoa


  • A new minute Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Andes of southern Ecuador

    We describe a new rainfrog species (Pristimantis), from the wetland complex Oña, Nabón, Saraguro and Yacuambi in the Andes of southern...
    Plos One


  • Prolonged middle ear development in Rhinella horribilis

    Despite the benefit of the tympanic middle ear to airborne hearing sensitivity, anurans range in how soon they develop functional middle ears after transitioning to life on...
    Journal of Morphology


  • The chrytrid fungus in India

    Filling in needed data on the distribution of chytrid in Asia, Thorpe et al. (2018) report on their systematic survey of the lethal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in the Western...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Infection dynamics in adult amphibians

    Identifying the biological mechanisms underlying seasonality in infection can enable better prediction and prevention of future infection peaks. A study by Daversa et al. (2018)...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Population genomic data and novel conservation actions

    Rana boylii the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog of Oregon and California, is a declining species considered to function as a "sentinel" for assessing ecological health of stream...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Skin microbiome variation in amphibians

    Which explains skin microbiome variation in amphibians, microhabitat or taxonomy? Bird et al. (2018) explored this in Ensatina and Batrachoseps species, predicting...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • A Pan-Amazonian species delimitation: Amazophrynella

    Amphibians are probably the most vulnerable group to climate change and climate-change associate diseases. This ongoing biodiversity crisis makes it thus imperative to...
    PeerJ


  • Cuatro anfibios que se creían extintos vuelven a aparecer en Ecuador y Colombia

    Ginebra, 5 jul (EFE/Andes).- Cuatro especies de anfibios que estaban consideradas como extintas fueron redescubiertas en Colombia y...
    EFE/Andes


  • How amphibians will respond to ongoing climate change

    How amphibians will respond to ongoing climate change is uncertain and doubtless will vary among taxa and environments. A study of the Arroyo Toad (Anaxyrus...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Low acclimation capacity of narrow‐ranging thermal specialists and susceptibility to climate change

    Markle and Kozak (2018) determined the mean critical thermal maximum (CTM) and mean acclimation ability of 16 species of Desmognathus and...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • 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