A noite é un momento máxico no que todo parece ser posible, as animas espertan do seu letargo e camiñan polas corredoiras á procura de descanso. Todos as animais do maxín galaico os trasgos, as meigas e as fadas, festexan con cantigas a morte momentánea do astro rei. Leer más.

Escáncer é o nome que en partes de Ourense se lle da a un certo tipo de réptil que parecendo serpes, non o son. Nese conxunto atopamos dous grupos ou familias, os escincidos como o escáncer tridáctilo (Chalcides estriatus) e o escáncer ibérico (Chalcides bedriagai), e o anguido, representado polo escáncer común (Anguis fragilis), coñecido tamén en algures co nome de esgonzo. Leer más.

Hace unos días os mostramos, a través de las páginas de este mismo blog, unos ejemplares de la subespecie de la salamandra común que habita en el extremo Norte y NO de la Península Ibérica, Salamandra salamandra bernardezi. En esta ocasión os traigo un ejemplar de la subespecie de salamandra que habita el Sur de Galicia y Norte de Portugal (además de alguna zona cercana), la Salamandra salamandra gallaica, también endémica de la Península Ibérica. Leer más.

Jaime Bosch, David García-Alonso, Saioa Fernández-Beaskoetxea, Matthew C. Fisher and Trenton W. J. Garner.  EcoHealth, March 2013. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is an unpredictable pathogen for European amphibian species, and existing field surveillance studies likely underestimate the scope of its distribution and effects. Mass mortality episodes recorded in Europe indicate that investigations of unstudied species should focus on members of the frog family Alytidae. Here, we report the combined results of a field survey and laboratory observations of field collected Alytes dickhilleni. Our data support the hypothesis that B. dendrobatidis has recently emerged in at least two disjunct locations in the species range and populations across much of the species range lack evidence of infection pathogen. Tadpoles taken into the laboratory from sites with infection experienced 70% mortality, unlike those taken into the laboratory from uninfected sites, and both infection and strength of infection was associated with mortality in animals collected from infected locations. Several conservation interventions are underway in response to our study, including the establishment of a captive assurance colony, a public awareness campaign, and experimental tests of disease mitigation schemes. Ir al enlace.

ARRIBAS, O. J.. Herpetozoa, 2013 [Volume 26]. Ir al enlace.