South American Anurans: Species Diversity and Description Trends Through Time and Space

Vasconcelos, T.; Silva, Fernando Rodrigues da; Santos, Tiágo Gomes dos; Prado, Vitor Hugo Mendonça do; Provete, Diogo B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26296-9_2

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“…However, our picture of amphibian diversity is changing in some predictable ways. The majority of new species are being described in Latin America (Vasconcelos et al, 2019) and Asia and specifically are concentrated in diverse families such as the Strabomantidae and Megophryidae. For example, the number of new species listed on AmphibiaChina increased from just four new species in 2015 (Murphy, 2016) to 41 new species reported in 2020 (Chen et al, 2021).…”

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State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources

Womack

Steigerwald

Blackburn

et al. 2022

Ichthyology & Herpetology

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confidence: 99%

State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources

Womack

Steigerwald

Blackburn

et al. 2022

Ichthyology & Herpetology

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“…Ninety-nine species and 75 genera from 25 out of the 26 South American families were selected with an emphasis on brachycephaloid families. Ultimately, several genera and multiple species per genera were sampled for the most likely families with respect to the biogeography of current species and their evolutionary history as based on phylogenomic studies (Feng et al 2017;Vasconcelos et al 2019;Hime et al 2021).…”

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First Eocene–Miocene anuran fossils from Peruvian Amazonia: insights into neotropical frog evolution and diversity

Jansen,

Gómez,

Fouquet

et al. 2023

Papers in Palaeontology

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Anurans are one of the most diverse vertebrate groups, particularly in Amazonia, where species richness exceeds that of anywhere else. Amazonian frogs belong to three main lineages (Hyloidea, Microhylidae and Pipidae), each of which diversified during the Cenozoic. However, due to the virtual absence of an anuran fossil record in that area, the evolutionary history of modern lineages has so far remained accessible only via molecular data. In recent decades, a series of field campaigns in Peruvian Amazonia led to the discovery of an unparalleled set of anuran bone fragments, scattered across different sites spanning the Eocene–Miocene time interval. Here, we describe these first Palaeogene and early Neogene anurans from Peru with a focus on humeral and ilial morphology, identifying five humeral and five ilial morphotypes. Humeral morphotypes suggest the presence of different lineages of Brachycephaloidea in Peruvian fossil assemblages, whereas ilial morphotypes suggest the presence of Leptodactylidae, although leptodactylid‐like ilia also occur in some extant brachycephaloids. Pipids were also identified based on both humeral and ilial fragments. This study fills a major temporal and geographical gap in the evolutionary history of South American anurans, while further uncovering a lack of knowledge in the skeletal morphology of extant anuran families, as well as their inter‐ and intra‐species variability.

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The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America

Barcelos

Santos

2022

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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South American Anurans: Species Diversity and Description Trends Through Time and Space

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources

State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources

First Eocene–Miocene anuran fossils from Peruvian Amazonia: insights into neotropical frog evolution and diversity

The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America

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