These results suggest that speciation in midwife toads initially involve cryptic lineages, which probably evolve RI through intrinsic (genetic) hybrid incompatibilities. As they continue to diverge, these nascent species eventually differentiate externally, which potentially enforces pre-mating barriers and facilitates sympatry. Leer más.
We provide evidence that an FV3-like virus has been present in amphibians from the PNP since at least 2009. Further efforts should be taken to understand the impacts of FV3 on amphibians inhabiting the Pyrenees. Leer más.
In this study we compile data regarding lizard densities of the island populations of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis
pityusensis, which can serve as a baseline for future research and control of the invasive snakes, and in particular the
horseshoe whip snake Hemorrhois hippocrepis, in the Pityusic Islands. Leer más.
We hypothesise that differences in head shape due to microhabitat and soil variation might be considered a scenario under which different amphisbaenian head morphologies initially evolved. Leer más.
The name Ptyodactylus bischoffsheimi is reinstated from the synonymy of P. puiseuxi for the northern species found in northwestern, central, and eastern Syria, and western Iraq. Because the current location of the type specimens described in 1893 are unaccounted for and because of previous taxonomic confusion, we assign for both species neotypes and provide updated redescriptions. Leer más.
