Eleutherodactylus ridens (Pygmy Rainfrog) Predation

Workers of the large ponerine ant Paraponera clavata typically forage on small to medium-sized arthropods or collect pieces of plants or nectar but have been suspected of predating small vertebrates

A catalog of larval Amphibia in the Yale Peabody Museum

The herpetological collection of Yale University\u27s Peabody Museum of Natural History contains over 1,460 lots of larval amphibians, representing more than 9,000 individuals. Although the majority of the larvae originate from North American localities, especially Connecticut, the collection includes representative holdings from several countries. A catalog of the entire Yale Peabody Museum larval collection is provided here

New Distribution Records for Amphibians and Reptiles in Connecticut, with Notes on the Status of an Introduced Species

Recent field work and a review of catalogued specimens in the herpetology collections at the Yale Peabody has yielded 170 new town records for amphibians and reptiles in Connecticut. These are reported here, along with observations on the status of the red-ear slider (Trachemys scripta) in Connecticut

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016

A catalog of larval amphibia in the Yale Peabody Museum

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Notes on a Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from El Salvador

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A new species of brilliant green frog of the genus Tlalocohyla (Anura, Hylidae) hiding between two volcanoes of northern Costa Rica

Varela-Soto, Donald, Abarca, Juan G., Brenes-Mora, Esteban, Aspinall, Valeria, Leenders, Twan, Shepack, Alex (2022): A new species of brilliant green frog of the genus Tlalocohyla (Anura, Hylidae) hiding between two volcanoes of northern Costa Rica. Zootaxa 5178 (6): 501-531, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5178.6.

FIGURE 5 in Recent findings of Isthmohyla pictipes (Anura: Hylidae) in Costa Rica: variation and implications for conservation

FIGURE 5. Dorsal and ventral views of Isthmohyla pictipes adults collected in Cuericí, Costa Rica. (A–B): Female (UCR 23366). (C–D): Female (UCR 23364). (E–F): Male (UCR 23363).Published as part of <i>Chaves-Acuña, Wagner, Chaves, Gerardo, Klank, Jeremy, Arias, Erick, Bolaños, Federico, Shepack, Alex, Leenders, Twan, Cossel, John & Faivovich, Julián, 2020, Recent findings of Isthmohyla pictipes (Anura: Hylidae) in Costa Rica: variation and implications for conservation, pp. 499-514 in Zootaxa 4881 (3)</i> on page 505, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4283918">http://zenodo.org/record/4283918</a&gt

Recent findings of Isthmohyla pictipes (Anura: Hylidae) in Costa Rica: Variation and implications for conservation

We report recent findings of Isthmohyla pictipes (Cope, 1875) in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica, roughly two decades after it was last registered. We provide notes on microhabitat use, color variation, external morphology of adults and larvae, and geographic variation, and discuss some taxonomic characters employed to differentiate I. pictipes from I. tica (Starrett, 1966) and I. xanthosticta (Duellman, 1968). We also report fluorescence on the ventral surfaces of I. pictipes. Our findings are expected to shed light on the taxonomy of this species and should be useful in further population assessments and conservation plans.Fil: Chaves Acuña, Wagner Josue. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"; ArgentinaFil: Chaves, Gerardo. Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa RicaFil: Klank, Jeremy. Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa RicaFil: Arias, Erick. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México. Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa RicaFil: Bolaños, Federico. Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa RicaFil: Shepack, Alex. Florida International University; Estados UnidosFil: Leenders, Twan. No especifíca;Fil: Cossel, John. Northwest Nazarene University; Estados UnidosFil: Faivovich, Julián. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"; Argentin