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First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a fossil ilium and an ornamented skull bone that can be attributed to the Recent,
Mörs T, Reguero M, Vasilyan D.
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The Amphibian Genomics Consortium: advancing genomic and genetic resources for amphibian research and conservation. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Amphibians represent a diverse group of tetrapods, marked by deep divergence times between their three systematic orders and families. Studying amphibian biology through the genomics lens increases our understanding of the features of this animal class ...
Kosch TA, Torres-Sánchez M, Liedtke HC, Summers K, Yun MH, Crawford AJ, Crawford AJ, Maddock ST, Ahammed MS, Araújo VLN, Bertola LV, Bucciarelli GM, Carné A, Carneiro CM, Chan KO, Chen Y, Crottini A, da Silva JM, Denton RD, Dittrich C, Espregueira Themudo G, Farquharson KA, Forsdick NJ, Gilbert E, Che J, Katzenback BA, Kotharambath R, Levis NA, Márquez R, Mazepa G, Mulder KP, Müller H, O'Connell MJ, Orozco-terWengel P, Palomar G, Petzold A, Pfennig DW, Pfennig KS, Reichert MS, Robert J, Scherz MD, Siu-Ting K, Snead AA, Stöck M, Stuckert AMM, Stynoski JL, Tarvin RD, Wollenberg Valero KC, Amphibian Genomics Consortium.   +48 more
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Una nueva especie de Baurubatrachus (Anura, Neobatrachia) del Cretácico Superior de la Formación Adamantina de Brasil proporciona evidencia sobre la diversidad de este género estrafalario [PDF]

, 2022
In the present paper, we report new anuran remains recovered from strata referred to the Adamantina Formation (Upper Cretaceous) cropping out near Catanduva city, São Paulo, Brazil.
Iori, Fabiano Vidoi, Martinelli, Agustín Guillermo, Muzzopappa, Paula, Pereira Muniz, Fellipe   +3 more
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Xenopus laevis and Emerging Amphibian Pathogens in Chile [PDF]

, 2016
Amphibians face an extinction crisis with no precedence. Two emerging infectious diseases, ranaviral disease caused by viruses within the genus Ranavirus and chytridiomycosis due to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), have been linked with amphibian ...
Alvarado-Rybak, M, Cunningham, AA, García, MP, Peñafiel-Ricaurte, A, Price, SJ, Sallaberry-Pincheira, N, Soto-Azat, C   +6 more
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Amphibiomorphic modeled and painted pottery from argentine patagonia and Central-Southern Chile. Functional interpretation and identification of species based on mimetic and aposematic traits [PDF]

, 2018
This work aims to identify attributes or features related to endemic amphibians in modeled and painted pottery from central-southern Chile and north-western Argentina.
Jofré, Daniella P., Perez, Alberto Enrique, Schuster, Veronica   +2 more
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Is The Amphibian Tree of Life really fatally flawed? [PDF]

, 2008
Wiens (2007 , Q. Rev. Biol. 82, 55–56) recently published a severe critique of Frost et al.'s (2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 297, 1–370) monographic study of amphibian systematics, concluding that it is “a disaster” and recommending that readers ...
Aguilar C, Baez A.M, Blair W.F, Burton T.C, Cordova J.H, Dubois A, Duellman W.E, Duellman W.E, Frost D.R, Graybeal A, Hein J, Heyer W.R, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Laurent R.F, Lynch J.D, Lynch J.D, Lynch J.D, Noble G.K, Pauly G.B, Simmons M.P, Sinsch U, Sinsch U, Smith H.M, Thorne J.L, Wheeler W.C, Wiens J.J   +25 more
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Taxinomic relationship of Telmatobiinae, its recent discussion and critical significance in some immunotests [PDF]

, 2019
Taxinomic relationship of Telmatobiinae, as it was recently arranged by Lynch (1969), is controlled by means of serological tests. Close relations between Telmatobufo and Telmatobius are pointed out. On the contrary Calyptocephalella lies at a remarkable
Cei, José Miguel Alfredo María
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On the interest of a recent herpetological finding in Southern Chile [PDF]

, 1973
A second species of the endemic Chilean genus Telmatobufo (T. australis) was collected in the humid and cold Valdivian forest of the Pelada mountains (Formas, 1972).
Cei, José Miguel Alfredo María
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Conservation of the critically endangered frog Telmatobufo bullocki in fragmented temperate forests of Chile : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2015
Amphibians are currently facing several threats and are suffering severe population declines and extinction worldwide. Telmatobufo bullocki (Anura: Calyptocephalellidae) is one of the rarest and most endangered amphibian species in Chile's temperate ...
Moreno-Puig, Virginia
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Conservación de anfibios de Chile: memorias del taller de conservación de anfibios para organismos públicos [PDF]

, 2012
Los anfibios han dado origen a toda la diversidad de vertebrados presentes en la tierra, incluyendo a nosotros, los seres humanos. Los anfibios mantienen los ecosistemas equilibrados y controlan de forma natural las plagas de insectos.
Soto-Azat, Claudio, Valenzuela-Sánchez, Andrés   +1 more
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