Compared with the risks associated with climate warming and extremes, the risks of climate-induced drying to animal species remain understudied. This is particularly true for water-sensitive groups, such as anurans (frogs and toads), whose long-term survival must be considered in the context of both environmental changes and species sensitivity. Leer más.
Barbara Caspers, Tobias Krause, Sean Grond, Max Mühlenhaupt & Laura Schulte are organizing the 1st European Fire Salamander Meeting (EFSM2025) from September 4th to 6th , 2025 in Bielefeld, Germany. With this meeting they aim to bring together researchers, conservationists and anyone interested in the European Fire Salamander.
In preparation to the meeting they want to ask you to fill out the short survey, to help them with further planning. The survey is non-binding and it is not a registration yet.
Carmona-González, R.; Carro, F.; González de la Vega, J.P.; Martínez-Freiría, F. Temporal Range Dynamics of the Lataste’s Viper (Vipera latastei Boscá, 1878) in Doñana (Spain): Insights into Anthropogenically Driven Factors. Animals 2024, 14, 3025. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14203025
Este pequeño anfibio anuro pertenece a la familia Alytidae endémico de las Baleares, concretamente de la isla de Mallorca. Hoy en día ya no está presente en el resto de las Baleares; en Menorca sólo se han encontrado restos óseos. Leer más.
While examining the specimens deposited in the herpetological collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, we discovered a second specimen of P. fimbriata, an adult male collected in the “Serra do Araraquara,” state of Paraná, Brazil, previously identified as Phrynomedusa appendiculata. Leer más.
