El voto de un público en línea nombró a una nueva especie de rana descubierta en Ecuador. El anfibio denominado Rana Cohete Resistencia de Intag o Intag resistance rocket frog procede del Valle de Intag que se encuentra amenazado por el proyecto minero Llurimagua. Leer más.
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Una nueva evaluación concluyó que hay 14 especies “altamente vulnerables” al cambio climático, según las proyecciones para 2050, una situación que es especialmente sensible para las seis que ya integran la “Lista Roja de Anfibios y Reptiles del Uruguay” Leer más.
The systematics of the African frog family Hyperoliidae has undergone turbulent changes in last decades. Representatives of several genera have not been genetically investigated or with only limited data, and their phylogenetic positions are thus still not reliably known. Leer más.
The genus Cnemaspis as presently construed is polyphyletic, with African, South Asian and Southeast Asian clades each representing independent lineages. The name Ancylodactylus Müller, 1907 is available for the African clade of forest geckos and features previously identified as putatively diagnostic of this group (loss or reduction of the second phalanx of digit IV of manus and pes, as well as a markedly dilated basal portions of the digits) are here regarded as characters supporting the monophyly of Ancylodactylus. Leer más.
A new species of the genus Liurana Dubois, 1986 is described from Medog County, Tibet, China, based on morphological and molecular data. The new species can be differentiated from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: Leer más.
