Mastodawn

it's #worldFrogDay, everybody! 🐸

#photography #nature #frogs #treefrog #anura #hylidae #rainforest #brazil

Crapaud Commun (Bufo bufo) en tandem pendant la migration prénuptiale vers les zones humides.

Citadelle de Lille, février 2023

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Common Toad (Bufo bufo) in tandem during the pre-nuptial migration to wetlands.

Citadelle de Lille, february 2023

#bufobufo #crapaudcommun #commontoad #bufo #bufonidae #crapauds #truetoad #anura #citadelledelille #boisdeboulognelille #hautsdefrancenature #hautsdefrance #nature

Iulian M Jun 27, 2025

An unamused common toad (Bufo bufo), cought off-guard by us, geocachers, while looking for our "treasure". Perhaps this was the treasure all along.

#toad #toads #commontoad #bufo #bufobufo #anura #amphibian #amphibians #geocaching #wildlife

Magr Mar 27, 2025

En este #Taxojueves de #Anura , Boana pulchella, la ranita que canta como si lloviera

Sávio Cavalcante 🍃🦗Jan 28, 2025

A frog with extraordinary see-through eyelids! A beautiful way to see while diving or sleeping without anyone noticing 🍃

#photography #nature #frog #vertebrates #amphibian #anura #rainforest #brazil #tropical #flash #night

GBIF Mammut sp.Jan 20, 2025

New paper in Check List using @gbif mediated data:

New record of #Sphaenorhyncus prasinus Bokermann, 1973 (#Anura, Hylidae) from northeastern #Brazil 🇧🇷

#CiteTheDOI: ❌

https://doi.org/10.15560/20.6.1320

New record of Sphaenorhyncus prasinus Bokermann, 1973 (Anura, Hylidae) from northeastern Brazil

The distribution of Sphaenorhynchus prasinus Bokermann, 1973 in Brazil extends from eastern Bahia to eastern and central Minas Gerais, northern Espírito Santo, with isolated records in Alagoas and Pernambuco. Here, we present a new record of the occurrence of S. prasinus and the potential distribution of the species throughout the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Our record increases the distribution of the species by 944 km from the type locality in the municipality of Ilhéus, state of Bahia and by 80 km from the northernmost record in Igarassu, Pernambuco.

Check List

DORIS_FFESSM_BioSubaquatique Jun 24, 2024

Un nouveau #batracien aux lèvres blanches vient se joindre à nous ce jour : la #grenouille des bois.

COROLLA Jean-Pierre, FEY Laurent in : #DORIS, 23/06/2024 :
Lithobates sylvaticus (Leconte, 1825), https://doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/2133

#biodiversite #Anura #Quebec #biodiversity #vertébrata

Lithobates sylvaticus | DORIS

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Albert Cardona Mar 6, 2024

"Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution", Paluh et al. 2021 https://elifesciences.org/articles/66926

... competing with wing loss in flies (flightlessness), at 25 events counted to date. Can't find an up to date citation; a neat phylogenetic tree of #Diptera marking all the apomorphic events was shown to me by Darren Williams. There's Wagner & Liebherr 1992 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016953479290047F listing 22 insect orders with flightless species: almost all of them have species with secondary wing loss.

#evolution #frogs #Anura #amphibians #teeth

Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

Teeth are maintained in two amphibian groups (caecilians and salamanders) but were lost in frogs over 20 times independently, a higher incidence of edentulism than any other major vertebrate group.

eLife