Telma G. Laurentino, Miguel P. Pais, Gonçalo M. Rosa. Basic and Applied Herpetology Online First. 2016. In the last decades increasing records of morphological abnormalities in many amphibian populations have become subject of scientific interest. Once considered a mere curiosity, this worldwide phenomenon has been highlighted as a potential local conservation issue, for it appears to be yet another threat to amphibian diversity. Our study reports the first cases of amphibian deformities for North-Central Portugal, which are put in context with a review comprising European records since the XVIII century.  Leer más.

En el municipio de Arabuco (Boyacá), en los páramos del complejo Iguaque Merchán, investigadores del Instituto Humboldt hallaron una nueva especie de rana colombiana, que tiene cejas amarilla, es denominada la Pristimantis macrummendozai, que tiene la capacidad de conservar la humedad gracias a los pliegues que tiene su piel. Leer más.

A new species of the uropeltid snake genus, Melanophidium Günther, 1864 is described based on a series of eight specimens. Melanophidium khairei sp. nov. is the fourth species described in the genus, and the first for 144 years. Leer más.

A new cryptic species of bush frog Raorchestes honnametti sp. nov. is described from the south-eastern part of the Western Ghats, India. Leer más.

Using up to 2456 bp mtDNA and up to 2716 bp nDNA of fresh samples and short sequences of three mitochondrial genes of historical museum material, we examine the phylogeography of Amyda cartilaginea. This data set provides evidence for the existence of deeply divergent genetic lineages which we interpret as three distinct species, two of which are polytypic. Leer más.