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Darrel Frost

@amphibianspecies.bsky.social
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Amphibians, reptiles, general observations

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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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It Looks Like Nothing Else: Meet the Bizarre Frog That Shouldn’t Exist
The Leyte Chorus Frog is a rare, non-reproducing hybrid caused by deforestation-driven overlap between two frog species, finally identified using modern genomics and decades-old museum specimens. Evol...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A thoughtful paper on the use of Citizen Science (iNaturalist: www.inaturalist.org) records to help understand a poorly known frog fauna (Melanesia). My opinion of iNaturalist continues to climb. doi.org/10.1071/PC24...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A new frog (Rana minuscula) from Zhejiang, China. amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
First record of the Rocket Frog, Hyloxalus anthracinus (Dendrobatidae) from Peru. amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Advertisement call from the southern portion of the range of Espadarana prosoblepon (Centrolenidae). amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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¡Una nueva esperanza para la biodiversidad de Santander! La rana 'Atelopus monohernandezii' reaparece luego de 41 años - Comunicaciones UIS
Gracias al interés y la pasión por la conservación de la biodiversidad, un grupo de estudiantes y profesionales en herpetología de la Escuela de Biología de la UIS logró hallar, después de 41 años, un...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
A new frog (Sphaerotheca varshaabhu) from southern India. doi.org/10.11646/zoo... amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Recent additions and changes to Amphibian Species of the World. amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Running-log-...
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Running log of additions and changes, 2023 | Amphibian Species of the World
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Two new families of brachycephalid frogs from the Neblina Massif of the Venezuelan/Brazilian borderlandsby Fouquet et al (2023,    doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...). See amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu... and amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Extended the range of the frogs Occidozyga shiwandashanensis (Dicroglossidae) and Hylarana latouchii (Ranidae) into Vietnam on the basis of the paper bu Tran et al. (2022: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....). amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu... . amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anu...
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Integrative taxonomic analyses reveal first country records of Occidozyga shiwandashanensis Chen, Pe...
Occidozyga shiwandashaensis was recently discovered from Guangxi Province of China. Hylarana latouchii is a widespread species in southern China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. Both species are expec...
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Conservation units of the ranid frogs Rana/Amerana muscosa and sierrae by Byrne et al. (2023: doi.org/10.1007/s105...). An important paper for anyone committed to amphibian conservation in California.
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
A thoughtful paper on the implementation of the subspecies rank in systematics and conservation by Dufresnes, Poyarkov, and Jablonski, 2023, "Acknowledging more biodiversity without more species" (www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...)
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Darrel Frost @amphibianspecies.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
New rain frogs from Ecuador. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1073...
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