High Contrast Markings Can Negate the Benefits of Transparent Camouflage [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTransparency is, in theory, the ultimate form of concealment allowing for perfect background matching camouflage regardless of the environment. In nature, despite some remarkable examples of highly transparent organisms, physiological constraints mean ...
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Tissue-specific in vivo transformation of plasmid DNA in Neotropical tadpoles using electroporation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Electroporation is an increasingly common technique used for exogenous gene expression in live animals, but protocols are largely limited to traditional laboratory organisms.
Jesse Delia +6 more
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Papeis Avulsos De Zoologia, 2007 Se describen las larvas de dos especies de la familia Centrolenidae (Hyalinobatrachium ibama y Cochranella daidalea) procedentes del flanco occidental de la cordillera Oriental en el departamento de Norte de Santander, Colombia.
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A secret from a hidden world: A new glassfrog of the genus Nymphargus (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe genus Nymphargus is the most speciose of the family Centrolenidae with 44 species. In this study, we describe a new species of Nymphargus and present an updated phylogeny. The new species is sister to an undescribed species, also from SW Ecuador, and
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The poverty of adult morphology: Bioacoustics, genetics, and internal tadpole morphology reveal a new species of glassfrog (Anura: Centrolenidae: Ikakogi) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Ikakogi is a behaviorally and morphologically intriguing genus of glassfrog. Using tadpole morphology, vocalizations, and DNA, a new species is described from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM), an isolated mountain range in northern Colombia.
Marco Rada +8 more
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Simplifying the Centrolene buckleyi complex (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae): a taxonomic review and description of two new species [PDF]
PeerJCentrolenidae is a Neotropical family widely distributed in Central and South America, with its species richness concentrated in the tropical Andes. Several taxonomic problems have been identified within this family, mostly related to species with broad ...
Daniela Franco-Mena +11 more
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Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 2022 Guayasamin JM, runner RM, Valencia-Aguilar A, Franco- Mena D, Ringler E, Medina Armijos A, Morochz C, Bustamante L, Maynard RJ, Culebras J. 2022.
Mauricio Rivera-Correa
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First records of the glass frogs Hyalinobatrachium cappellei (van Lidth de Jeude, 1904) and H. mondolfii Señaris & Ayarzagüena, 2001 (Anura, Centrolenidae) in the state of Amapá, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2020 Glass frogs (Centrolenidae) are widely distributed in the Neotropics. This study presents novel data on two centrolenid species of the genus Hyalinobatrachium Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1991 collected during herpetofaunal surveys carried out in ...
Vinícius A. M. B. de Figueiredo +4 more
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New localities, range extension, natural history, and conservation status of Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodriguez & Aguilar, 2006) [PDF]
Check List, 2021 We provide information on the distribution, natural history, and conservation status of Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodriguez & Aguilar, 2006), a species from central Peru which is currently considered as Critically Endangered. We
Pablo Javier Venegas +1 more
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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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