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Waving Through Ontogeny: The Larval Chondrocranial Development of Staurois parvus

International Journal of Zoology, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
The vertebrate skull is a complex structure with diverse evolutionary and developmental patterns. Anuran chondrocranial development has been shown to deviate from generalized vertebrate trends, highlighting its evolutionary flexibility. This study investigates the chondrocranial development of Staurois parvus, a ranid frog, to provide insights into ...
Paul Lukas, Lipi Buch
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More than fish: diet composition of fishing cats Prionailurus viverrinus in human‐dominated landscape

Wildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 5, September 2025.
The fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus is a medium‐sized wetland specialist felid threatened primarily by habitat loss, human–wildlife conflict, and road mortality. Limited information is available on their life history in human‐modified environments.
Rama Mishra, Laura Bertola, Herwig Leirs, Sabin Adhikari, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Naresh Subedi, Utsav Neupane, Shekhar S. Kolipaka, Prajwol Manandhar, Saman Man Pradhan, Asmita Pageni, Hans H. de Iongh   +11 more
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Tadpoles of three sympatric spiny frogs (Anura, Dicroglossidae, Quasipaa) from Wuyishan, China [PDF]

Herpetozoa
During a rapid survey in Wuyishan, China, tadpoles of three Quasipaa species were collected from the same stream. Molecular data confirmed that these tadpoles belong to Q. exilispinosa, Q. spinosa, and Q. jiulongensis.
Tianyu Qian, Cheng Li, Sining Huang, Bo Chen, Yujuan Guo, Jianping Jiang   +5 more
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A de novo case of floating chromosomal polymorphisms by translocation in Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura, Dicroglossidae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Very few natural polymorphisms involving interchromosomal reciprocal translocations are known in amphibians even in vertebrates. In this study, thirty three populations, including 471 individuals of the spiny frog Quasipaa boulengeri, were karyotypically
Liyan Qing, Yun Xia, Yuchi Zheng, Xiaomao Zeng   +3 more
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Interplay of Genotypic and Thermal Effects on Sex Determination Shapes Climatic Distribution in Herpetofauna

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Sex is a fundamental trait of many organisms, and sex‐determination systems are diverse across the tree of life. Environmental temperature can influence sexual development not only in temperature‐dependent sex‐determination systems, but also in species with genotypic sex determination (GSD). Temperature‐induced sex reversal, resulting from
Edina Nemesházi, Veronika Bókony
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Machine learning models accurately predict clades of proteocephalidean tapeworms (Onchoproteocephalidea) based on host and biogeographical data

Cladistics, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 264-282, June 2025.
Abstract Proteocephalids are a cosmopolitan and diverse group of tapeworms (Cestoda) that have colonized vertebrate hosts in freshwater and terrestrial environments. Despite the ubiquity of the group, key macroevolutionary processes that have driven the group's evolution have yet to be identified.
Philippe Vieira Alves, Reinaldo José da Silva, Tomáš Scholz, Alain de Chambrier, José Luis Luque, Anastasiia Duchenko, Daniel Janies, Denis Jacob Machado   +7 more
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Suction Feeding in Dendropsophus cerradensis Tadpoles: New Behavioral Observations and Morphological Traits in a Member of the D. microcephalus Group (Anura, Hylidae)

Journal of Morphology, Volume 286, Issue 5, May 2025.
The tadpole of Dendropsophus cerradensis exhibits an oral tube completely covered by external folds. The feeding behavior is characterized by an oral tube that protrudes exclusively during predation. This macrophagy feeding is associated with a buccopharyngeal cavity reduced in features, robust mandibular and hyoid musculature, as well as a modified ...
Barbara Caroline Marcondes, Pedro Henrique dos Santos Dias, Raíla Brena Araújo, Guilherme Castro Franco de Lima, Caroline Cuervo‐Santos, Caroline Batistim Oswald, Rafael Felix Magalhães, Sebastião Roberto Taboga, Tiago Leite Pezzuti   +8 more
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Sphaerotheca pashchima, a new species of burrowing frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from western India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017
Sphaerotheca pashchima, a new species of burrowing frog, is described from western India. It can be diagnosed from all its congeners based on a combination of characters including interorbital width less than upper eyelid width, snout to nostril distance
Anand Padhye, Neelesh Dahanukar, Shauri Sulakhe, Nikhil Dandekar, Sunil Limaye, Kirti Jamdade   +5 more
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Validation and development of eDNA metabarcoding primers for comprehensive assessment of Chinese amphibians

Integrative Zoology, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 504-519, May 2025.
eDNA metabarcoding, using various primer sets, effectively amplified 83 amphibian species from China, showcasing its potential for biodiversity assessments. However, optimizing amphibian‐specific primers is crucial due to occasional non‐amphibian amplification.
Dongyi WU, Pingshin LEE, Hongman CHEN, Fang YAN, Jiayue HUANG, Yanhong HE, Ruiyao WU, Zhiyong YUAN   +7 more
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Comparative analysis of amphibian genomes: An emerging resource for basic and applied research

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates and are in dire need of conservation intervention to ensure their continued survival. They exhibit unique features including a high diversity of reproductive strategies, permeable and specialized skin capable of producing toxins and antimicrobial compounds, multiple genetic mechanisms of ...
Tiffany A. Kosch, Andrew J. Crawford, Rachel Lockridge Mueller, Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero, Megan L. Power, Ariel Rodríguez, Lauren A. O'Connell, Neil D. Young, Lee F. Skerratt   +8 more
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