The phylogeny of the Salientia

I Griffiths - Biological Reviews, 1963 - Wiley Online Library
The essentially recent skeletal patterns of fossil Salientia indicates that the evolutionary
relationships of the order must continue to be assessed on evidence obtained chiefly from a …

Systematics of the neotropical genus Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): phylogeny, the relevance of non-molecular evidence, and species …

RO de Sá, T Grant, A Camargo, WR Heyer… - South American Journal …, 2014 - BioOne
A phylogeny of the species-rich clade of the Neotropical frog genus Leptodactylus sensu
stricto is presented on the basis of a total evidence analysis of molecular (mitochondrial and …

Developments in amphibian parental care research: history, present advances, and future perspectives

LM Schulte, E Ringler, B Rojas… - Herpetological …, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
Despite rising interest among scientists for over two centuries, parental care behavior has
not been as thoroughly studied in amphibians as it has in other taxa. The first reports of …

The adaptive ecology of the species groups of the genus Leptodactylus (Amphibia, Leptodactylidae)

WR Heyer - Evolution, 1969 - JSTOR
Five species groups within the frog genus Leptodactylus are recognized; the advanced
Fuscus and Marmoratus groups, the primitive Melanonotus and Ocellatus groups, and the …

A review of the leptodactylid frog genus, Odontophrynus

JM Savage, JM Cei - Herpetologica, 1965 - JSTOR
The frogs of the neotropical genus Odontophrynus form a distinctive and phyletically
compact group of warty toadlike burrowers, readily distinguished from other members of the …

[HTML][HTML] Tadpole diversity of Bolivia's lowland anuran communities: molecular identification, morphological characterisation, and ecological assignment

A Schulze, M Jansen, G Köhler - Zootaxa, 2015 - biotaxa.org
The last decades have witnessed a rapid increase in our knowledge about amphibian
diversity, and a growing number of studies have focused on anuran larval stages. Tadpoles …

A phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodema (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with comments on the evolution …

J Faivovich, DP Ferraro, NG Basso, CFB Haddad… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Species of the genus Pleurodema are relatively small, plump frogs that mostly occur in
strong‐seasonal and dry environments. The genus currently comprises 14 species …

The tadpoles of the Iron Quadrangle, Southeastern Brazil: a baseline for larval knowledge and anuran conservation in a diverse and threatened region

TL Pezzuti, FSF Leite, DC Rossa-Feres… - South American Journal …, 2021 - BioOne
Knowledge of tadpole morphology and natural history is essential to understand and protect
anuran diversity. We provide a regional taxonomic catalog of the tadpoles that occur in the …

Trends towards non-aquatic and direct development in frogs

B Lutz - Copeia, 1947 - JSTOR
T HE study of the life-cycle of the Amphibia Salientia has been relatively L neglected
compared to other aspects of work upon them, such as tax-onomy. This can only be …

Big, bad, and beautiful: phylogenetic relationships of the horned frogs (Anura: Ceratophryidae)

J Faivovich, L Nicoli, BL Blotto, MO Pereyra… - South American Journal …, 2014 - BioOne
The horned frog family, Ceratophryidae, currently comprises three genera and 12 extant
species, distributed from the Caribbean lowlands to the Pampean grasslands. Horned frogs …