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Updates on the diet items of Conophis lineatus (Squamata: Dipsadidae)
Caldasia, 2020 Conophis lineatus is a widely distributed species, from Mexico to Costa Rica, recognized for its wide diet breadth. Here we present two feeding events under natural conditions, as well as a review of liter-ature on the species in the diet of C. lineatus.
Carlos Javier Pérez-Alvarado +1 more
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Animals, 2023 The Vanishing Rainfrog (Craugastor evanesco) is an endemic and critically endangered frog species of Panama. It is suspected that 90% of the population has disappeared from the wild.
Yineska Otero +9 more
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Revisión taxonómica de Alytes grandis Brunner (Amphibia, Anura)
Estudios Geologicos, 1986 Se examina el holotipo y único resto atribuido de Alytes grandis Brunner, 1957, un supuesto discoglósido del Pleistoceno alemán, comparándose con otros anuros actuales y fósiles del Paleártico.
B. Sanchiz, H. H. Schleich
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Glassfrogs of Ecuador: Diversity, Evolution, and Conservation
Diversity, 2020 Glassfrogs (family: Centrolenidae) represent a fantastic radiation (~150 described species) of Neotropical anurans that originated in South America and dispersed into Central America.
Juan M. Guayasamin +4 more
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Two new charismatic Pristimantis species (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the tepuis of “The Lost World” (Pantepui region, South America) [PDF]
, 2013 Two new colourful species of direct-developing frogs of the genus Pristimantis are described from the summit of two isolated tepuis (sandstone table mountains) in the Eastern Pantepui District of the Guiana Shield highlands. Pristimantis jamescameroni sp.
Kok, Philippe J. R.
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Environmental DNA, 2021 Leaf litter habitats shelter a great variety of organisms, which play an important role in ecosystem dynamics. However, monitoring species in leaf litter is challenging, especially in highly diverse environments such as tropical forests, because ...
Carla Martins Lopes +6 more
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Similarities in Evasive Behavior of Wolf Spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae), American Toads (Anura: Bufonidae) and Ground Beetles (Coleopterea: Carabidae) [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) While collecting newly metalnorphosed American toads, Bufo anlericanus Holbrook, we have observed that they exhibited evasive behavior similar to that of adults of the wolf spiders, Pardosa saxatilis (Hentz), Pirata insularis Emerton, Pirata ...
Brown, Lauren E., Thrall, James H.
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Frontiers in ToxicologyThe reduction in the number of animals being used in experimental assays has been a concern of the scientific community. In this sense, non-animal alternative methods have been increasingly tested.
Sónia Dias Coelho +5 more
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Does Chytridiomycosis Affect Tree Frog Attachment?
Diversity, 2021 The pandemic disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is a major threat to amphibian biodiversity. For most species, the exact mechanisms of chytridiomycosis that lead to negative population dynamics remain ...
Lisa Nieuwboer +5 more
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