Treefrog diversity in the Neotropics: phylogenetic relationships of Scinaxini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

K Araujo-Vieira, ACC Lourenço, JVA Lacerda… - South American Journal …, 2023 - BioOne
Scinax is the most species-rich genus of Neotropical treefrogs, with 129 currently recognized
species divided between two major clades, the S. catharinae and S. ruber clades. The S …

Combining predictive distribution methods and life history to reduce geographic distribution shortfalls for two rocky Cerrado endemic leaf frogs

ACH Del Prette, RF de Magalhães, P Lemes… - Journal for Nature …, 2024 - Elsevier
Species-focused conservation requires accurate knowledge of geographic distribution to
effectively categorize species in red lists, assess threats, and plan conservation initiatives. In …

[HTML][HTML] Tadpoles of Central Amazonia (Amphibia: Anura)

L Schiesari, DDC Rossa-Feres, M Menin, W Hödl - Zootaxa, 2022 - biotaxa.org
Amazonian lowland rainforests epitomize, as few other biomes, the terrestrial and freshwater
biological diversity of our planet. We provide here a comprehensive description of the larval …

The missing piece of the puzzle: larval morphology of Xenohyla truncata (Anura: Hylidae: Dendropsophini) and its implication to the evolution of Dendropsophini …

PH dos Santos Dias, BC Marcondes, TL Pezzuti… - Zoomorphology, 2023 - Springer
Dendropsophini is a highly diverse clade with a controversial phylogenetic and taxonomic
history. Different generic arrangements have been proposed and the monophyly of several …

[PDF][PDF] Mystery solved: unravelling the life history of the enigmatic and ancient Philippine frog Barbourula busuangensis (Anura: Bombinatoridae).

M Miñarro, PA Burrowes, C Lansac, L Afuang… - …, 2024 - researchgate.net
The biology of the poorly known Philippine frog Barbourula busuangensis has been a
challenging mystery since the discovery of the species one hundred years ago. Based on …

Traditional taxonomy underestimates the number of species of Bokermannohyla (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) diverging in the mountains of southeastern Brazil since …

TO Brunes, FCS Pinto, PPG Taucce… - Systematics and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the huge difference in land coverage between mountains and lowlands, most
species are indeed found in mountains and foothills. The causes of this pattern have …

Discovering the diversity of tadpoles in the mid-north Brazil: morphological and molecular identification, and characterization of the habitat

P dos Santos Sousa, CAS Azevedo, MC Barros… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Brazil stands out for presenting the highest amphibian anuran diversity in the world.
However, taxonomic studies that address characteristic of larval stage of anurans are …

Larval morphology of Amazonia foam‐nesting frogs of the genus Engystomops (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae)

FAC do Nascimento, RO de Sá… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The highly differentiated anuran larvae make them an interesting and complementary
source of information to understand anuran evolution. Among neotropical foam‐nesting …

SnakeFace: a transfer learning based app for snake classification

JG Pires, LH Dias Braga - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Introduction deep learning emerged in 2012 as one of the most important machine learning
technologies, reducing image identification error from 25% to 5%. This article has two goals …

Larval morphology and phylogenetic placement of Boana exastis (Anura, Hylidae): a comparison with B. pardalis and B. lundii

FAC Do Nascimento, L Lima Correia… - … on Neotropical Fauna …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The treefrog Boana exastis was tentatively included in B. faber group based on its
morphological similarity to B. lundii and B. pardalis. This species was only recently included …