Se encontró y jamás volvió a hallar hasta que Claudio Correa junto a un colaborador alemán lo lograron en escondido sitio del norte. Pero análisis indican que sería la misma que dos especies nortinas nativas descritas como distintas. Leer más.





Con el objeto de ejercer nuestro derecho a participar en la elaboración a esta ley, hemos preparado una plantilla de alegaciones junto con la federación FAUNA, para que cualquiera pueda hacer llegar su opinión a la Dirección General de Derechos de los Animales, una vez abierto el plazo de de información pública del anteproyecto. Leer más,
In the last few years, multiple new infectious diseases have affected amphibians, causing unprecedented declines and extinctions at the global scale. Many of these diseases are caused by pathogens that have been described during recent decades. In this study we report a novel disease, affecting European amphibians. In a protected area of Northern Italy, since the autumn of 2013, we started to find some adult salamanders with cysts at the throat level (subgular region). Following this observation, we ran a regular monitoring of the salamander population and performed multiple morphological and molecular investigations to identify the cause of this undescribed disease. Leer más.
The fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) threatens amphibian biodiversity and ecosystem stability worldwide. Amphibian skin microbial community structure has been linked to the clinical outcome of Bd infections, yet its overall functional importance is poorly understood. Leer más.
A new species of Phalotris from the nasutus group, Phalotris shawnella sp. nov., is described. It can be distinguished from the other members of the group by having the following combination of characters: Leer más.