Diversity and biogeography of frogs in the genus Amnirana (Anura: Ranidae) across sub-Saharan Africa

GFM Jongsma, MF Barej, CD Barratt, M Burger… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Frogs in the genus Amnirana (family Ranidae) are widely distributed across sub-Saharan
Africa and present a model system for exploring the relationship between diversification and …

[图书][B] An IUCN situation analysis of terrestrial and freshwater fauna in West and Central Africa

IUCN Species Survival Commission - 2015 - books.google.com
This situation analysis was undertaken to inform responses to several resolutions made at
the 5th World Conservation Congress in 2012 about the plight of large vertebrates in West …

[PDF][PDF] At the edge of extinction: a first herpetological assessment of the proposed Serra do Pingano Rainforest National Park in Uíge Province, northern Angola

R Ernst, T Lautenschläger, MF Branquima… - Zoosystematics and …, 2020 - zse.pensoft.net
We systematically assess the herpetofaunal diversity of the Serra do Pingano Forest
Ecosystem (SPFE) and additional localities throughout the northern Angolan province of …

Exploring rain forest diversification using demographic model testing in the African foam‐nest treefrog Chiromantis rufescens

AD Leaché, DM Portik, D Rivera… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species with wide distributions spanning the African Guinean and Congolian rain
forests are often composed of genetically distinct populations or cryptic species with …

[PDF][PDF] Designation and description of a neotype of Sclerophrys maculata (Hallowell, 1854), and reinstatement of S. pusilla (Mertens, 1937)(Amphibia: Anura …

JC Poynton, SP Loader, W Conradie, MO Roedel… - Zootaxa, 2016 - researchgate.net
Molecular analysis indicates that African material previously referred to Amietophrynus
maculatus (Hallowell, 1854; now Sclerophrys maculata), is divisible into two distinct clades …

Rivers, not refugia, drove diversification in arboreal, sub‐Saharan African snakes

KE Allen, E Greenbaum, PM Hime… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The relative roles of rivers versus refugia in shaping the high levels of species diversity in
tropical rainforests have been widely debated for decades. Only recently has it become …

[PDF][PDF] A survey of amphibians and reptiles in the foothills of Mount Kupe, Cameroon

DM Portik, GFM Jongsma… - Amphibian & …, 2016 - amphibian-reptile-conservation.org
We performed surveys at several lower elevation sites surrounding Mt. Kupe, a mountain at
the southern edge of the Cameroonian Highlands. This work resulted in the sampling of 48 …

[图书][B] Vital but vulnerable: Climate change vulnerability and human use of wildlife in Africa's Albertine Rift

J Carr, W Outhwaite, G Goodman, T Oldfield, W Foden - 2013 - books.google.com
The designation of geographical entities in this book, and the presentation of the material,
do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IUCN or the compilers …

[HTML][HTML] Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura: Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift

E Greenbaum, DM Portik, KE Allen, ER Vaughan… - Zootaxa, 2022 - biotaxa.org
The geographically widespread species Afrixalus laevis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) currently has
a disjunct distribution in western Central Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and …

[PDF][PDF] Herpetological surveys in two proposed protected areas in Liberia, West Africa

MO Rödel, J Glos - Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2019 - zse.pensoft.net
Abstract In March and April 2018 we surveyed amphibians and reptiles in two Proposed
Protected Areas (PPAs) in Liberia. In the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area (KBPPA) in …