Most swamp-dwelling dusky salamanders of the genus Desmognathus from the Coastal Plain were long treated as a single species (Desmognathus auriculatus) ranging from east Texas to southeastern Virginia. This taxon concept was based on the name Salamandra auriculata Holbrook, 1838 with type locality Riceboro, Liberty County, Georgia and a type series that could not be located by later authors. Leer más.
Los paleontólogos en Utah se sorprendieron cuando descubrieron una pila fosilizada de huesos pequeños en la Formación Morrison de Utah. Sin embargo, tras una inspección más cercana se dieron cuenta de que los huesos pertenecían a una variedad de anfibios que habían sido consumidos por un depredador más grande, que luego los vomitó hace 150 millones de años. Leer más.
Extreme forest modifications detrimentally affected the conservation and ecological value of both amphibian and reptile communities, and altered the evolutionary processes shaping these communities, while forests with lower impact disturbances might, to some extent, serve as reservoirs of species. Leer más.
Researchers at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology examined the Plethodontidae, a dominant family of salamanders that are all lungless as adults, and discovered that they do develop lungs as embryos, providing insight into the evolution of lung loss over millions of years. Their findings were recently published in the journal Science Advances. Leer màs.
El passat cap de setmana va tindre lloc la segona edició del curs d’herpetologia de l’Associació Herpetològica Timon en Noguera de Albarracín (Terol, Aragó). Leer más.
