Friday, March 22, 2013

[Paleontology • 2013] The Largest flying reptile from Gondwana: a new specimen of Tropeognathus cf. T. mesembrinus Wellnhofer, 1987 (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) and other large pterosaurs from the Romualdo Formation, Lower Cretaceous

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Reconstruction of the world’s largest southern hemisphere pterosaur, Tropeognathus . displayed in Rio de Janeiro National Museum, Brazi...

[Herpetology • 2013] Recent rapid speciation and ecomorph divergence in Indo-Australian sea snakes | Shrunken Heads of Sea Snakes

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Given their feeding habits, some sea snakes have developed 'shrunken heads'. An international team of scientists says this can l...

[Herpetology • 2013] Hot bodies protect amphibians against chytrid infection in nature

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Green Eyed Tree Frog with radio-transmitter photo: Jodi J L Rowley http://australianmuseum.net.au Environmental context strongly...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Reviving the Woolly Mammoth: Will De-Extinction Become Reality?

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This photo shows a museum worker inspecting a replica of a woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ), a relative of modern elephants that w...

[Herpetology • 2013] Tylototriton ziegleri | Ziegler's Crocodile Newt • A New Species of Tylototriton (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae) from Northern Vietnam

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Ziegler's Crocodile Newt | Tylototriton ziegleri Nishikawa, Matsui & Nguyen, 2013  Abstract A new species of the sal...

[Herpetology • 2010] Tylototriton notialis • A New Species in the Tylototriton asperrimus Group (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Central Laos

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Tylototriton notialis Stuart, Phimmachak, Sivongxay & Robichaud. 2010 Abstract A new species in the morphologically con...

[Herpetology • 2005] Tylototriton vietnamensis • A new species of salamander, genus Tylototriton (Urodela: Salamandridae), from northern Vietnam

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Tylototriton vietnamensis Böhme, Schöttler, Nguyen, & Köhler 2005 Abstract  We describe a new species of Tylototriton from ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Frog of India • 15 Endemic Amphibian Genera of India

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Frog of India 15 Endemic Amphibian Genera of India 1. Micrixalus (Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka) 2. Pterorana (Nagaland) ...

[Ichthyology • 2013] Kryptopterus vitreolus | ปลาผี, ปลาก้างพระร่วง หรือปลากระจก • After eighty years of misidentification, a name for the glass catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Thailand

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Kryptopterus vitreolus  Ng & Kottelat 2013 Abstract We resolve the identity of the glass catfish, a species of Asian freshw...

[Ichthyology • 2013] Aphyocypris pulchrilineata • a new miniature cyprinid species (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from Guangxi, China

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Aphyocypris pulchrilineata  Zhu, Zhao & Huang 2013 Abstract Aphyocypris pulchrilineata sp. nov. , a miniature cyprinid fish,...

[Ichthyology • 2012] Thryssocypris wongrati | ปลาซิวแถบเงิน'อาจารย์ประจิตร' • a new anchovy-like cyprinid (Cypriniformes) from the Chao Phraya basin, Thailand

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ปลาซิวแถบเงิน "อาจารย์ประจิตร" Thrysscocypris wongrati Grudpan & Grudpan, 2012 Abstract Thryssocypris wongrati , a ...

[Ichthyology • 2011] Aphyocypris amnis • Synonymization of Pararasbora, Yaoshanicus, and Nicholsicypris with Aphyocypris, and description of a new species of Aphyocypris (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Taiwan

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Aphyocypris amnis Liao, Kullander & Lin 2011 The genus Aphyocypris is a group of small fish distributed in East Asia. Aphyocypr...

[Ichthyology • 2001] Aspidoparia ukhrulensis • A new freshwater cyprinid fish Aspidoparia from the Chatrickong River, Manipur, northeastern India

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Aspidoparia ukhrulensis  Selim & Vishwanath, 2001 Aspidoparia ukhrulensis is known only from Manipur, northeastern India.  I...

Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review

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TABLE 1. List of herpetofaunal taxa published on or after 1 January 2000 that can be objectively classed as unscientific, non-peer revi...

[Ichthyology • 2013] Cyanogaster noctivaga • a remarkable new genus and species of miniature fish (Ostariophysi: Characidae) from the Rio Negro, Amazon basin, Brazil

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Cyanogaster noctivaga , new genus, new species , is described from the Rio Negro, Brazil. It is a miniature fish of the Characidae b...