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Integrative Conservation, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 442-463, September 2025.In this study, we analyze the conservation status of Ethiopia's amphibian and reptile diversity in terms of coverage with protected areas and global representation in conservation breeding facilities. We identify conservation gaps and suggest priorities for improvement.
Kolja Sperling +3 more
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, 2016 Ptychadena cf. mossambica (Peters, 1854) Broad-banded Ridged Frog Material: PEM A10850‒10862 (38), 10874‒10876 (39), 10878‒10880 (39), and 10918 (43); SAIAB 101010 (38) and 101012 (39). Comment: A series of grass frogs (Fig. 7b) collected from the lower Cuando River near the village of Jamba are provisionally assigned to the Ptychadena ...
Conradie, Werner +2 more
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Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 6, August 2025.Dryland restoration is a challenging task due to the intrinsic low resilience and vulnerability to land degradation of these ecosystems. Restoring vegetation communities is often the first step to reinstating ecosystem health; however, resorting to activities such as tree planting is increasingly called into question, as it may lead to abrupt habitat ...
Fulvio Licata +4 more
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, 2009 FIGURE 1. Tadpole of Ptychadena schillukorum from Pendjari Biosphere Reserve (Gosner stage 36) in dorsal and lateral view (scale bar 10 mm) and mouthpart (scale bar 1 mm); number of keratodonts sketched, no accurate count.Published as part of Nago, S ...
Nago, S. Gilles Armel +2 more
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Wildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, January 2025.The global dependency on railways as an economical and environmentally‐friendly option for transportation is steadily increasing. Despite their numerous benefits, railways and train traffic can have negative impacts on wildlife, particularly through the risk of mortality due to collisions with trains, entrapment in rails, or electrocution at overhead ...
Manisha Bhardwaj +4 more
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Ptychadena tournieri Guibe & Lamotte 1955
, 2000 Ptychadena tournieri Guibé & Lamotte, 1955 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Guinée. Nimba (Fig. 1), 1, lectotype (Perret,) (MNHN 8679, MNHN 1954); 1 juvénile, paralectotype (8680); 1, paralectotype (1951.193); V.1978, 13, 7, 1 juvénile, 1 juvénile (MNHN 1995.1321 -
Ohler, Annemarie, Lamotte, Maxime
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 30, Issue 12, December 2024.Abstract Aim There is an urgent need to explore, characterize, describe and preserve as many species as possible to prevent their decline. Tropical biodiversity hotspots harbour most of the known land diversity and vast amounts of undiscovered and undescribed species.
Albert Carné, David R. Vieites
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Comparative muscle anatomy of the anuran pelvis and hindlimb in relation to locomotor mode
Journal of Anatomy, Volume 245, Issue 5, Page 751-774, November 2024.Scientists at UCL and the Royal Veterinary College have digitally dissected the musculoskeletal anatomy of the pelvis and hindlimbs of 30 frog species using contrast‐enhanced microCT scanning, forming the largest digital anatomical dataset in any vertebrate group to date.
Alice Leavey +2 more
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, 2023 The Ethiopian Highlands are considered a biodiversity hotspot, harboring a high number of endemic species. Some of the endemic species probably diversified in situ; this is, for example, the case of a monophyletic clade containing 12 known species of ...
M. L. Lyra (15418673) +4 more
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Unique breeding biology of the recently described Beytell's bullfrog Pyxicephalus beytelli
African Journal of Ecology, Volume 62, Issue 3, September 2024.Abstract At the time of the recent description of Beytell's bullfrog (Pyxicephalus beytelli), no information about the breeding biology of this frog was known to science. The intensive publicity in the social media that followed this description caught the eye of a USA‐based film maker who incidentally recently filmed the breeding biology of this frog ...
Louis H. Du Preez +3 more
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