How is a tadpole like a short-sleeved white tee shirt? The answer lies in the Alameda Creek outside San Francisco, California, USA. Ari Daniel Shapiro wades into the issue of dams and biodiversity with two biologists sampling the DNA of this threatened frog in order to save it. Photo Credit: Alessandro Catenazzi, CC BY-NC-SA Download a transcript of this podcastread moreDuration: 5:12Published: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:24:17 +0000
Alessandro Catenazzi, Víctor Vargas García, Edgar Lehr
Zookeys
Figure 2.Live holotype of Telmatobius ventriflavum sp. n., male CORBIDI 14685 (SVL 48.5 mm) in dorsolateral (A) and ventral (B) views. Live paratypes, female CORBIDI 14684 (SVL 52.9 mm; C, D), and female CORBIDI 14686 (SVL 51.5 mm; E, F) in dorsolateral and ventral views. Photographs by A. Catenazzi.
Sueny P. dos Santos, Roberto Ibáñez, Santiago R. Ron
Zookeys
Figure 8.Dorsolateral and ventral views of Rhinella alata from the Chocó region. A and C QCAZ 50568 (SVL 40.37 mm), adult female, La Concordia, Santo Domingo Province, Ecuador B and D QCAZ 37248 (SVL 40.23 mm), adult male, Valle Hermoso, El Oro Province, Ecuador. Not shown at the same scale. Photos by S.R. Ron.
Today was the first day I'd found a newt in my garden for several years. They used to lurk in and around my old coal bunker, which was dismantled ages ago. This one was under the bird bath (the sort that's like a mini rock pool at ground level).