[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in taxonomic studies, biogeographic analysis, and revised checklist of amphibians in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, ES Popov… - Russian Journal of …, 2021 - rjh.folium.ru
Abstract The Indochinese Peninsula is recognized as one of the key global biodiversity
hotspots. The amphibian fauna of Indochina (including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and …

State of the Amphibia 2020: A review of five years of amphibian research and existing resources

MC Womack, E Steigerwald… - Ichthyology & …, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
Amphibians are a clade of over 8,400 species that provide unique research opportunities
and challenges. With amphibians undergoing severe global declines, we posit that …

A little frog leaps a long way: compounded colonizations of the Indian Subcontinent discovered in the tiny Oriental frog genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Microhylidae)

VA Gorin, EN Solovyeva, M Hasan, H Okamiya… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Frogs of the genus Microhyla include some of the world's smallest amphibians and
represent the largest radiation of Asian microhylids, currently encompassing 50 species …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, P Pawangkhanant… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Slug-eating snakes of the subfamily Pareinae are an insufficiently studied group of snakes
specialized in feeding on terrestrial mollusks. Currently Pareinae encompass three genera …

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam-Implementation of the One Plan Approach

M Krzikowski, TQ Nguyen, CT Pham… - Nature …, 2022 - natureconservation.pensoft.net
The current decline in global biodiversity is most evident in amphibians with 41% percent of
all species worldwide classified as threatened with extinction. Hence, a major challenge in …

Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different …

MD Scherz, CR Hutter, A Rakotoarison, JC Riemann… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Miniaturised frogs form a fascinating but poorly understood amphibian ecomorph and have
been exceptionally prone to taxonomic underestimation. The subfamily Cophylinae (family …

The biogeography of bent-toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

LL Grismer, NA Poyarkov, ESH Quah, JL Grismer… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
The gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is the third largest vertebrate genus on the planet with
well over 300 species that range across at least eight biogeographic regions from South …

[PDF][PDF] Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs

VA Gorin, MD Scherz, DV Korost… - Zoosystematics and …, 2021 - zse.pensoft.net
The genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 includes 52 species and is one of the most diverse
genera of the family Microhylidae, being the most species-rich taxon of the Asian subfamily …

Four in one: An integrative taxonomic revision of the Microhyla berdmorei complex (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) illustrates the tremendous amphibian diversity of …

AV Trofimets, C Dufresnes, P Pawangkhanant… - Vertebrate …, 2024 - hal.science
Berdmore's narrow-mouthed frog, Microhyla berdmorei (Blyth, 1856), is the largest member
of the genus Microhyla and is distributed all over Southeast Asia, from Northeast India and …

A new species of Kurixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from northern Vietnam with comments on the biogeography of the genus

TV Nguyen, TV Duong, KT Luu… - Journal of Natural …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We describe a new species of rhacophorid frogs from Nghe An Province in northern Vietnam
based on morphological and molecular evidences. Morphologically, Kurixalus gracilloides …