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Guillermo Velo-Antón, Xavier Santos, Iago Sanmartín-Villar, Adolfo Cordero-Rivera, David Buckley.
Evolutionary Ecology July 2014. Amphibian reproductive modes are diverse and are characterised by complex adaptations, including vast variability in life history traits and different parental investment strategies. For instance, viviparity is rare in urodeles despite the potential ecological advantages gained in such populations by having semi-independency from water. The fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra, shows remarkable intraspecific variation in reproductive modes, with two strategies co-occurring: a common reproductive mode, larviparity (parturition of aquatic larvae), and a phylogenetically derived reproductive mode, pueriparity (parturition of terrestrial juveniles). Leer más.

On a hot, muggy afternoon in West Madagascar, the skies begin to darken. Pregnant with water, black clouds roll in, and a cacophony of frog songs emerges in anticipation of the aquatic gift from the sky. So many different kinds of frogs, so many different sounds! If you listen closely you can tell one frog from another. We know many of these frogs, we recognize their voices. But sometimes we hear a brand new voice, one we have never heard before! Leer más.

Por su tamaño y coloración me aventuraría a decir que es una hembra subadulta o incluso adulta. No es raro que las hembras de esta especie sean tomadas a menudo por ejemplares juveniles, debido a que normalmente mantienen el diseño propio de su inmadurez durante el resto de su vida y a que alcanzan menores tamaños que los machos. Esta creencia se ve además reforzada debido a que la gran mayoría de los ejemplares que se observan atropellados son machos en celo que deambulan en busca de hembras por su extenso territorio. Leer más.