Piecing the barcoding puzzle of Palearctic water frogs (Pelophylax) sheds light on amphibian biogeography and global invasions

C Dufresnes, B Monod‐Broca, A Bellati… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Palearctic water frogs (genus Pelophylax) are an outstanding model in ecology and
evolution, being widespread, speciose, either threatened or threatening to other species …

Functional and temporal facets of predation by marsh frogs across the aquatic–terrestrial ecotone of ponds and implications in the context of biological invasions

F Pille, L Pinto, M Denoël - Freshwater Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater vertebrate predators can exert trophic control over aquatic and littoral
communities. Among these predators, post‐metamorphic anurans exhibit a biphasic trophic …

Detection of Glacial Refugia and Post-Glacial Colonization Routes of Morphologically Cryptic Marsh Frog Species (Anura: Ranidae: Pelophylax) Using Environmental …

SN Litvinchuk, DV Skorinov, AY Ivanov, OA Ermakov - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Studying the distribution of morphologically cryptic animal species is always a very difficult
task. Because most marsh frog species (the Pelophylax ridibundus complex) are cryptic, we …

New diverse amphibian and reptile assemblages from the late Neogene of northern Greece provide novel insights into the emergence of extant herpetofaunas of the …

GL Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, M Delfino - Swiss Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
We here describe abundant new fossil material of amphibians and reptiles from different late
Neogene localities of northern Greece: the Early Pliocene (MN 14) of Spilia 0, Spilia 1, and …

[PDF][PDF] Which species of water frogs inhabit ponds of the Caucasus? Taxonomic mess with Pelophylax ridibundus species complex

D Tarkhnishvili, M Todua, G Iankoshvili - Caucasiana, 2024 - caucasiana.pensoft.net
Two nominal species of water frogs of the genus Pelophylax, P. ridibundus and P.
bedriagae, are found in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Western Asia …

New records and updated distribution of the Balkan endemic and threatened water frog Pelophylax shqipericus in Montenegro

K Ljubisavljević, A Urošević… - Bulletin of the Natural …, 2023 - radar.ibiss.bg.ac.rs
In this paper, we present the distribution of the Balkan endemic and vulnerable water frog
Pelophylax shqipericus in Montenegro based on our field work and literature data. The …