Episodes
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A recently extinct new species of Dryadobates (Anura: Aromobatidae) from South Brazil: species description and implications for the historical distribution and recent extinction history of the clade
This article describes a recently extinct new species of Atlantic Forest nurse frog, Dryadobates erythropus. This species description is based on a single, highly desiccated adult male collected in 1963 in Curitiba, Paraná, significantly expanding the known southern distribution of the…
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Museomics and the systematics of the Atlantic Forest nurse frogs (Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae: Allobatinae)
This paper investigates the taxonomy of Atlantic Forest nurse frogs using museomics, which involves analyzing ancient DNA (hDNA) from museum specimens, alongside morphological data and bioacoustics. Due to extinctions at type localities, previous studies were unable to obtain sufficient evidence…
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A new species of Neblinaphryne (Anura: Brachycephaloidea: Neblinaphrynidae) from Serra do Imeri, Amazonas state, Brazil
This paper, published in Zootaxa, describes the discovery and formal description of a new species of frog, Neblinaphryne imeri, found in the Serra do Imeri massif in the Amazonas state of Brazil. Researchers utilized a multidisciplinary approach, including molecular, morphological, acoustic,...
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Museomics reduces taxonomic inflation in the Dendropsophus araguaya complex (Hylinae: Dendropsophini) from the Cerrado
This article employs museomics, analyzing historical DNA from museum specimens, to re-evaluate the classification of a group of tree frogs, specifically the Dendropsophus araguaya complex, aiming to resolve issues of taxonomic uncertainty. By successfully extracting and sequencing DNA from...
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Historical DNA Places an Apparently Extinct Gladiator Frog in the Phylogeny of the Boana pulchella Group (Anura: Hylidae)
This research paper investigates the taxonomic status of the Boana cymbalum frog, considered extinct since the 1960s, by utilizing historical DNA (hDNA) extracted from a preserved museum specimen. Through advanced sequencing techniques, the study successfully places B. cymbalum within the B....