• 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


  • Is global climate change affecting amphibian communities?

    Is global climate change affecting amphibian communities now and is it likely to affect them in the future? A group of North American amphibian biologists (Miller et al. 2018) used...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Tres especies nuevas de anfibios por semana

    New species of amphibians continue to be named at a pace of about 3 per week. Many of the newly described species are from well-explored regions, where they have been...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Amphibian advocates

    Our amphibian advocate for this newsletter is Fausto Siavichay Pesántez, Coordinator at the Amphibian Conservation Center at Zoo Amaru in Ecuador. Fausto and his team have been working to help...
    AARK


  • 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