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 | La fauna de Anfibios de Cuba cuenta con aproximadamente 64 especies. Cuatro familias están representadas: Bufonidae (la familia de los sapos), con un género Peltophryne y siete ocho especies descritas . La segunda familia es Hylidae, (familia de ranas arborícolas conocidas como hylas, en otras regiones), con una sola especie del género Osteopilus. La tercera familia se llama Eleutherodactylidae, y está constituida por 54 especies descritas, todas del género Eleutherodactylus considerado un “mega-género” con más de 700 especies conocidas desde México hasta la América del Sur. Finalmente la cuarta familia es Ranidae (familia de las verdaderas ranas), con un solo representante: la conocida Rana Toro, con una historia de múltiples introducciones en Cuba con fines comerciales. |
 | The research, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, has shed new light on the little-known migration behaviour of these animals — following their movement from the world’s largest breeding colony in Gabon, Central Africa, as they returned to feeding grounds across the South Atlantic. |
Snakes are the unbilled stars of the new Coen Brothers’ western, True Grit. They’re talked about, given lots of screen time, and you’d better believe that they bite. We asked snake expert Terry Philip, curator of reptiles at Black Hills Reptile Gardens in Rapid City, South Dakota, to shed light on the movie depiction of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. Leer más.
 | The genus Heterodactylus now includes a third species of elongate, short-limbed, earless lizards. H septentrionalis is the first new species of the genus discovered since 1862. One species occurs in the high-elevation Atlantic forests of southern Brazil, a second in a few mountainous sites in Minas Gerais. Both are very rare, with only about 15 known specimens in total. The new species was discovered more than 1,000km north of the previous northern record and, like its southern relatives, seems restricted to colder climates. |
