17 anys del curs CRARC de veterinària en rèptils

Aquest any fa 17 que vam començar a fer aquest curs d’estiu. Sempre han tingut molt èxit entre els assistents. Com en les anteriors edicions, el curs serà eminentment pràctic, amb una durada de 8 hores diàries durant 6 dies.
El curs està pensat perquè se li tregui profit a partir de 3r de carrera (Veterinària, Biologia, Ambientals), així com també Auxiliars Tècnics Veterinaris. Leer más.

Frogs ‘under threat’ from goldfish in garden ponds

Exotic species of fish have been blamed for a disease which causes deaths of thousands of wild frogs Leer más.

A New Species of Epictia (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Brazil

A new species of blindsnake is described from the gallery forests of the Brazilian Cerrado. The new species differs from all other known Brazilian species of Leptotyphlopidae by a combination of scale counts, the shape of the snout in lateral view, and color pattern. Leer más.

Three New Endemic Species of Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) from the Dry Forest of northwestern Peru; Epictia septemlineata, E. vanwallachi & E. antoniogarciai

Three new blind snake species of the genus Epictia are described based on material collected in the Peruvian Regions Amazonas, Cajamarca and La Libertad. Leer más.

Systematics and Biogeography of the Hylarana Frog (Anura: Ranidae) Radiation Across Tropical Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Africa

We present an inclusive molecular phylogeny for Hylarana across its global distribution, utilizing two mitochondrial and four nuclear gene regions for 69 of the 97 currently described species. Leer más.