Neu beschriebene Amphibien

Informationen über neu beschriebene Amphibien und Hinweise auf taxonomische Veränderungen

 

2020

Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
2020-09-25
Pre-publication		 Raorchestes hillisi,
Raorchestes huanglianshan		 Rhacophoridae (Rhacophorinae) Taxonomic Revision of Raorchestes menglaensis (Kou, 1990) (Amphibia: Anura), with Descriptions of Two New Species from Yunnan, China [Ke JIANG; Jinlong REN; Jian WANG; Junfeng GUO; Zeng WANG; Yonghong LIU; Dechun JIANG and Jiatang LI]
2020-07-27 Anomaloglossus saramaka,
Anomaloglossus vacheri		 Aromobatidae (Anomaloglossinae) Two new species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) of the stepheni group from Suriname [ANTOINE FOUQUET, RAWIEN JAIRAM, PAUL OUBOTER, PHILIPPE J. R. KOK]
2020-07-22 Gephyromantis kintana Mantellidae (Mantellinae) Resolving a taxonomic and nomenclatural puzzle in mantellid frogs: synonymization of Gephyromantis azzurrae with G. corvus, and description of Gephyromantis kintana sp. nov. from the Isalo Massif, western Madagascar [Walter Cocca, Franco Andreone, Francesco Belluardo, Gonçalo M. Rosa, Jasmin E. Randrianirina, Frank Glaw, Angelica Crottini]
2020-07-21 Raorchestes franki Rhacophoridae (Rhacophorinae) A New Species of the Genus Zhangixalus (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam [Hoa Thi NINH, Tao Thien NGUYEN, Nikolai ORLOV, Truong Quang NGUYEN, Thomas ZIEGLER]
2020-07-20 Leptobrachella wulingensis Megophryidae (Leptobrachiinae) A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) Smith, 1925 from Wuling Mountains in Hunan Province, China [TIAN-YU QIAN, XIN XIA, YUE CAO, NENG-WEN XIAO, DAO-DE YANG]
2020-07-16 Pseudoeurycea granitum Plethodontidae A New Species of Pseudoeurycea (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Mountains of Central Veracruz, Mexico [ Paulina García-Bañuelos, José Luis Aguilar-López, Alfonso Kelly-Hernández, Víctor Vásquez-Cruz, Eduardo Pineda, Sean M. Rovito ]
2020-07-04 Tylototriton phukhaensis Salamandridae A New Species of Tylototriton (Urodela: Salamandridae) from Nan Province, Northern Thailand [Pomchote, Khonsue, Thammachoti, Hernandez, Suwannapoom & Nishikawa in Pomchote P, Khonsue W, Thammachoti P, Hernandez A, Peerachidacho P, Suwannapoom C, Onishi Y, Nishikawa]
2020-07-03 Pseudopaludicola coracoralinae Leptodactylidae Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Pseudopaludicola parnaiba (Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leiuperinae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Brazilian Cerrado [Felipe Silva de ANDRADE, Isabelle Aquemi HAGA, Mariana Lúcio LYRA, Thiago Ribeiro de CARVALHO, Célio Fernando Baptista HADDAD, Ariovaldo Antonio GIARETTA & Luís Felipe TOLEDO]
2020-07-01 Pristimantis afrix,
Pristimantis chocoensis,
Pristimantis cisnerosi		 Craugastoridae Relaciones filogenéticas del subgénero Hypodictyon (Anura: Strabomantidae: Pristimantis) con la descripción de tres especies nuevas de la región del Chocó [Carolina Reyes-Puig, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Jhael A. Ortega, Santiago R. Ron]
2020-06-29 Rentapia flavomaculata Bufonidae A revision of the Asian tree toad complex Rentapia hosii (Anura: Bufonidae) with the description of a new species from Peninsular Malaysia) [in Onn Chan, Robin K. Abraham & Baizul Hafsyam Badli-Sham]
2020-06-25 Amolops mahabharatensis Ranidae Description of a New Species of Amolops Cope, 1865 (Amphibia: Ranidae) from Nepal and Nomenclatural Validation of Amolops nepalicus Yang, 1991 [Janak Raj KHATIWADA; Guocheng SHU; Bin WANG; Tian ZHAO; Feng XIE; Jianping JIANG]
2020-06-24 Dryophytes flaviventris Hylidae (Hylinae) Yellow sea mediated segregation between North East Asian Dryophytes species [Amaël Borzée, Kevin R. Messenger, Shinhyeok Chae, Desiree Andersen, Jordy Groffen, Ye Inn Kim, Junghwa An, Siti N. Othman, Kyongsin Ri, Tu Yong Nam, Yoonhyuk Bae, Jin-Long Ren, Jia-Tang Li, Ming-Feng Chuang, Yoonjung Yi, Yucheol Shin, Taejoon Kwon, Yikweon Jang, Mi-Sook Min]
2020-06-24 Phrynopus remotum Craugastoridae (Holoadeninae) A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands [Germán Chávez, Luis Alberto García Ayachi, Alessandro Catenazzi]
2020-06-23 Phyllodytes magnus Hylidae (Lophyohylinae) A new large canopy-dwelling species of Phyllodytes Wagler, 1930 (Anura, Hylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil [Iuri R. Dias, Gabriel Novaes-e-Fagundes, Antonio Mollo Neto, Juliana Zina, Caroline Garcia, Renato Sousa Recoder, Francisco Dal Vechio, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Mirco Solé]
2020-06-22 Leptobrachella chishuiensis Megophryidae (Leptobrachiinae) A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from southwest China [Shi-Ze Li, Jing Liu, Gang Wei, Bin Wang]
2020-06-22 Megophrys chishuiensis Megophryidae (Megophryinae) A new species of the horned toad Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt, 1822 (Anura, Megophryidae) from southwest China [Ning Xu, Shi-Ze Li, Jing Liu, Gang Wei, Bin Wang]
2020-06-19 Zhangixalus jodiae Rhacophoridae
(Rhacophorinae)		 A new species of the genus Zhangixalus (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam [Tao Thien Nguyen, Hoa Thi Ninh, Truong Quang Nguyen & THomas Ziegler]
2020-06-18 Rana jiulingensis Ranidae A new species of the Rana japonica group (Anura, Ranidae, Rana) from China, with a taxonomic proposal for the R. johnsi group [Han Wan, Zhi-Tong Lyu, Shuo Qi, Jian Zhao, Pi-Peng Li, Ying-Yong Wang]
2020-06-18 Megophrys mirabilis,
Megophrys shimentaina,
Megophrys xiangnanensis,
Megophrys yangmingensis 		Megophryidae (Megophryinae) Four new species of Asian horned toads (Anura, Megophryidae, Megophrys) from southern China [Zhi-Tong Lyu, Yuan-Qiu Li, Zhao-Chi Zeng, Jian Zhao, Zu-Yao Liu, Guo-Xin Guo, Ying-Yong Wang]
2020-06-18 Dendropsophus bilobatus Hylidae (Dendropsophinae) A new species of Dendropsophus (Anura, Hylidae) from southwestern Amazonia with a green bilobate vocal sac [Miquéias Ferrão, Jiří Moravec, James Hanken, Albertina Pimentel Lima]
2020-06-15 Rhombophryne ellae Microhylidae (Cophylinae) Diamond frogs forever: a new species of Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880 (Microhylidae, Cophylinae) from Montagne d’Ambre National Park, northern Madagascar [Mark D. Scherz]
2020-06-05 Cophyla (Platypelis) laetus Microhylidae (Cophylinae) Frogs of the genus Platypelis from the Sorata massif in northern Madagascar: description of a new species and reports of range extensions [Andolalao Rakotoarison, Mark D. Scherz, Jörn Köhler, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Oliver Hawlitschek, Steven Megson, Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw]
2020-06-04 Phrynobatrachus ambanguluensis Phrynobatrachidae A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the Northern Mountains of Tanzania [Laura Greenwood, Simon P. Loader, Lucinda Lawson, Eli Greenbaum & Breda M. Zimkus]
2020-06-02 Nymphargus adespinosai,
Nymphargus humboldti,
Nymphargus lindae		 Centrolenidae Glassfrogs of Ecuador: Diversity, Evolution, and Conservation [Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Roy W. McDiarmid, Paula Peña and Carl R. Hutter]
2020-05-27 Micryletta sumatranai Microhylidae (Microhylinae) A New Species of Micryletta (Amphibia: Anura) from Sumatra, Indonesia [Misbahul Munir, Amir Hamidy, Masafumi Matsui, Mirza Dikari Kusrini, Kanto Nishikawa]
2020-05-26 Chiropterotriton casasi,
Chiropterotriton ceronorum,
Chiropterotriton melipona,
Chiropterotriton perotensis,
Chiropterotriton totonacus		 Plethodontidae Descriptions of five new species of the salamander genus Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from eastern Mexico and the status of three currently recognized taxa [Gabriela Parra Olea, Mirna G. Garcia-Castillo, Sean M. Rovito, Jessica A. Maisano, James Hanken, David B. Wake]
2020-05-21 Pristimantis rupicola Craugastoridae A New Rupicolous Species of the Pristimantis conspicillatus Group (Anura: Brachycephaloidea: Craugastoridae) from Central Bahia, Brazil [Pedro P. G. Taucce, Jamile S. Nascimento, Camila C. Trevisan, Felipe S. F. Leite, Diego J. Santana, Célio F. B. Haddad, Marcelo F. Napoli]
2020-05-21 Tylototriton pasmansi,
Tylototriton pasmansi obsti,
Tylototriton sparreboomi		 Salamandridae Integrative taxonomy reveals three new taxa within the Tylototriton asperrimus complex (Caudata, Salamandridae) from Vietnam [Marta Bernardes, Minh Duc Le, Truong Quang Nguyen, Cuong The Pham, Anh Van Pham, Tao Thien Nguyen, Dennis Rödder, Michael Bonkowski, Thomas Ziegler]
2020-05-20 Gracixalus trieng Rhacophoridae
(Rhacophorinae)		 A new species of phytotelm breeding frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Central Highlands of Vietnam [JODI J. L. ROWLEY, DUONG THI THUY LE, HUY DUC HOANG, TRUNG TIEN CAO, VINH QUANG DAU]
2020-05-20 Leptobrachium lunatum Megophryidae (Leptobrachiinae) Integrative taxonomic analysis reveals a new species of Leptobrachium (Anura: Megophryidae) from north-eastern Cambodia and central Vietnam [Bryan L. Stuart, Hannah E. Som, Thy Neang, Huy Duc Hoang, Duong Thi Thuy Le, Vinh Quang Dau, Kathy Potter & Jodi J. L. Rowley]
2020-05-20 Elachistocleis araios Microhylidae (Gastrophryninae) Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new trans-Andean species of Elachistocleis Parker 1927 (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) [JUAN C. SÁNCHEZ-NIVICELA, PEDRO L. V. PELOSO, VERÓNICA L. URGILES, MARIO H. YÁNEZ-MUÑOZ, YERKA SAGREDO, NADIA PÁEZ, SANTIAGO RON]
2020-05-18 Stumpffia froschaueri Microhylidae (Cophylinae) A new stump-toed frog from the transitional forests of NW Madagascar (Anura, Microhylidae, Cophylinae, Stumpffia). [Angelica Crottini, Gonçalo M. Rosa, Samuel G. Penny, Walter Cocca, Marc W. Holderied, Lovasoa M. S. Rakotozafy, Franco Andreone]
2020-05-18 Leptodactylus barrioi,
Leptodactylus kilombo,
Leptodactylus watu
 Leptodactylidae Unraveling the species diversity and relationships in the Leptodactylus mystaceus complex (Anura: Leptodactylidae), with the description of three new Brazilian species) [LEANDRO A. DA SILVA, FELIPE M. MAGALHÃES, HANS THOMASSEN, FELIPE S. F. LEITE, ADRIAN A. GARDA, REUBER A. BRANDÃO, CÉLIO F. B. HADDAD, ARIOVALDO A. GIARETTA, THIAGO R. DE CARVALHO]
2020-05-08 Bolitoglossa coaxtlahuacana Plethodontidae A new species of Bolitoglossa (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from the central highlands of Guerrero, Mexico [Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Antonio Yolocalli Cisneros-Bernal, J. Diego Arias-Montiel, Gabriela Parra-Olea]
2020-05-08 Qosqophryne flammiventris,
Qosqophryne gymnotis,
Qosqophryne mancoinca		 Craugastoridae (Holoadeninae) Neue Gattung Qosqophryne
A New Genus of Terrestrial-Breeding Frogs (Holoadeninae, Strabomantidae, Terrarana) from Southern Peru [Alessandro Catenazzi, Luis Mamani, Edgar Lehr and Rudolf von May]
2020-05-06 Mantidactylus radaka Mantellidae Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus) [Loïs Rancilhac, Teddy Bruy, Mark D. Scherz, Elvis Almeida Pereira, Michaela Preick, Nicolas Straube, Mariana L. Lyra, Annemarie Ohler, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Franco Andreone, Angelica Crottini, Carl R. Hutter, J. Christian Randrianantoandro, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Frank Glaw, Michael Hofreiter and Miguel Vences]
2020-04-28 Megophrys awuh,
Megophrys dzukou,
Megophrys numhbumaeng		 Megophryidae Taxonomic review of the Asian Horned Frogs (Amphibia: Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt) of Northeast India and Bangladesh previously misidentified as M. parva (Boulenger), with descriptions of three new species [Mahony S, RG Kamei, EC Teeling, and SD Biju]
2020-04-23 Leptobrachella feii,
Leptobrachella flaviglandulosa,
Leptobrachella niveimontis		 Megophryidae How little is known about “the little brown frogs”: description of three new species of the genus Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from Yunnan Province, China [Jin-Min Chen, Kai Xu, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Kai Wang, Zhi-Yong Yuan, Mian Hou, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Jian Wang, Jing Che]
2020-04-22 Oreolalax longmenmontis Megophryidae A new species of the toothed toad Oreolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China [Yinmeng Hou, Shengchao Shi, Daming Hu, Yue Deng, Jianping Jiang, Feng Xie, Bin Wang]
2020-04-22 Cophyla (Platypelis) ranjomena Microhylidae Genetic variability and partial integrative revision of Platypelis frogs (Microhylidae) with red flash marks from eastern Madagascar [Frank Glaw, Mark D. Scherz, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Angelica Crottini, Achille P. Raselimanana, Franco Andreone, Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences]
2020-04-20 Physalaemus claptoni Leptodactylidae Amphibians from Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brasil. VI: A New Species of the Physalemus deimaticus Group (Anura, Leptodactylidae) [FERNANDO LEAL, FELIPE S. F. LEITE, WILLIAM P. DA COSTA, LUCIANA B. NASCIMENTO, PAULO C. A. GARCIA]
2020-04-17 Raorchestes rezakhani Rhacophoridae A new species of cryptic Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from northeastern Bangladesh [Hassan Al-Razi, Marjan Maria, Sabir Bin Muzaffar]
2020-04-01 Leptobrachella suiyangensis Megophryidae A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou Province, China [Tao Luo, Ning Xiao, Kai Gao, Jiang Zhou]
2020-03-27 Bufo (Anaxyrus) monfontanus,
Bufo (Anaxyrus) nevadensis		 Bufonidae Two New Cryptic Endemic Toads of Bufo Discovered in Central Nevada, Western United States (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Bufo [Anaxyrus]) [Michelle R. Gordon, Eric T. Simandle, Franziska C. Sandmeier, C. Richard Tracy]
2020-03-27 Hyloxalus arliensis Dendrobatidae Description of a new diminutive Hyloxalus (Anura: Dendrobatidae: Hyloxalinae) from the Magdalena Valley of Colombia [ANDRÉS R. ACOSTA-GALVIS, MARIO VARGAS-RAMÍREZ, MARVIN ANGANOY-CRIOLLO, OSCAR A. IBARRA, SANDRA GONZÁLES]
2020-03-26 Megophrys jiangi Megophryidae A New Species of the Asian Toad Genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae) from Guizhou Province, China [Jing LIU; Shize LI; Gang WEI; Ning XU; Yanlin CHENG; Bin WANG and Jun WU2]
2020-03-19 Necturus moleri,
Necturus mounti		 Proteidae Colour and size reveal hidden diversity of Necturus (Caudata: Proteidae) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States [Guyer C, Murray C, Bart HL, Crother BI, Chabarria RE, Bailey MA, Dunn K
2020-03-18 Pristimantis giorgii,
Pristimantis pictus,
Pristimantis pluvian,
Pristimantis moa		 Craugastoridae Four new species of Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870 (Anura: Craugastoridae) in the eastern Amazon [Elciomar Araújo de Oliveira, Leandro Alves da Silva, Elvis Almeida Pereira Silva, Karen Larissa Auzier Guimarães, Marcos Penhacek, José Gregório Martínez, Luís Reginaldo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Diego José Santana, Emil José Hernández-Ruz]
2020-03-13 Bolitoglossa copinhorum Plethodontidae Integrative Systematic Revision of Bolitoglossa celaque (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with a new species from the Lenca Highlands of Honduras [Michael W. Itgen, Stanley K. Sessions, Larry David Wilson, Josiah H. Townsend]
2020-03-13 Pristimantis ardilae,
Pristimantis bowara		 Craugastoridae Two new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) with notes on the distribution of the genus in northeastern Colombia [ALDEMAR A. ACEVEDO, ORLANDO ARMESTO, R. EDUARDO PALMA]
2020-03-11 Eleutherodactylus erythrochomus Eleutherodactylidae A new species of direct-developing frog of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from the Pacific lowlands of Guerrero, Mexico [RICARDO PALACIOS-AGUILAR, RUFINO SANTOS-BIBIANO]
2020-03-10 Boana gracilis Hylidae Resolving the taxonomic puzzle of Boana cinerascens (Spix, 1824), with resurrection of Hyla granosa gracilis Melin, 1941 (Anura: Hylidae) [MARCELO JOSÉ STURARO, JOÃO CARLOS LOPES COSTA, ADRIANO O. MACIEL, GERALDO R. LIMA-FILHO, FERNANDO J. M. ROJAS-RUNJAIC, DANIELA PAREJA MEJIA, SANTIAGO R. RON, PEDRO L. V. PELOSO]
2020-03-10 Boana nigra,
Boana ventrimaculata		 Hylidae Systematics of the Boana semilineata species group (Anura: Hylidae), with a description of two new species from Amazonian Ecuador [Marcel A. Caminer, Santiago R. Ron]
2020-03-06 Copiula bisyllaba,
Copiula mosbyae		 Microhylidae Two New Frog Species of the Genus Copiula Mehely, 1901 (Anura, Microhylidae, Asterophryinae) from Southern Papua New Guinea [Rainer Günther, Stephen Richards]
2020-03-04 Pristimantis terrapacis Craugastoridae A New Species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Eastern Slope of the Cordillera Oriental, Arauca, Colombia [Jhon Jairo Ospina-Sarria, Teddy Angarita-Sierra]
2020-03-03 Phrynobatrachus arcanus,
Phrynobatrachus mbabo		 Phrynobatrachidae Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line [Václav Gvoždík, Tadeáš Nečas, Matej Dolinay, Breda M. Zimkus, Andreas Schmitz, Eric B. Fokam]
2020-03-02 Allobates pacaas Aromobatidae A new nurse frog from Southwestern Amazonian highlands, with notes on the phylogenetic affinities of Allobates alessandroi (Aromobatidae) [Melo-Sampaio PR, Prates I, Pelosos PLV, Recoder R, Dal Vechio F, Marques-Souza S, Rodrigues MT]
2020-03-01 Brachytarsophrys orientalis Megophryidae Review of the genus Brachytarsophrys (Anura: Megophryidae), with revalidation of Brachytarsophrys platyparietus and description of a new species from China [JYao Li, Dan-Dan Zhang, Zhi-Tong Lyu, Jian Wang, Yu-Long Li, Zu-Yao Liu, Hong-Hui Chen, Ding-Qi Rao, Zhi-Fang Jin, Chang-You Zhang, Ying-Yong Wang]
2020-03-01 Amolops tuanjieensis Ranidae A new species of the genus Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from Yunnan, China [Yu-Lu Gan, Guo-Hua Yu, Zheng-Jun Wu]
2020-02-28 Kurixalus gracilloides Rhacophoridae A new species of Kurixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from northern Vietnam with comments on the biogeography of the genus [Tan Van Nguyen, Tang Van Duong, Kien Trung Luu & Nikolay A. Poyarkov]
2020-02-26 Sarcohyla floresi Hylidae A new species of Sarcohyla (Anura: Hylidae: Hylini) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and Estado de México, México. [MOISES KAPLAN, PETER HEIMES, RAFAEL AGUILAR]
2020-02-25 Osteocephalus sangay Hylidae Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae). [Valeria D. Chasiluisa, Marcel A. Caminer, Andrea Varela-Jaramillo & Santiago R. Ron]
2020-02-20 Nidirana guangdongensis,
Nidirana mangveni,
Nidirana xiangica 		Ranidae Comprehensive approaches reveal three cryptic species of genus Nidirana (Anura, Ranidae) from China [Zhi-Tong Lyu, Ke-Yuan Dai, Yao Li, Han Wan, Zhe-Yi Liu, Shuo Qi, Si-Min Lin, Jian Wang, Yu-Long Li, Yang-Jin Zeng, Pi-Peng Li, Hong Pang, Ying-Yong Wang]
2020-01-29 Walkerana muduga Ranixalidae A deeply divergent lineage of Walkerana (Anura: Ranixalidae) from the Western Ghats of Peninsular India [K.P. DINESH, S.P. VIJAYAKUMAR, VIJAY RAMESH, ADITI JAYARAJAN, S.R. CHANDRAMOULI, KARTIK SHANKER]
2020-01-27 Ansonia kanak,
Ansonia kelabitensis		 Bufonidae Two New Ansonia from Mountains of Borneo (Anura, Bufonidae) [Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa, Koshiro Eto, Mohamad Yazid Hossman]
2020-01-20 Alytes pertinax Alytidae Hybrid zone genomics supports candidate species in Iberian Alytes obstetricans [Christophe Dufresnes & Íñigo Martínez-Solano]
2020-01-16 Nidirana yeae Ranidae A new species of the Asian music frog genus Nidirana (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from Southwestern China [Gang Wei, Shi-Ze Li, Jing Liu, Yan-Lin Cheng, Ning Xu, Bin Wang]
2020-01-16 Megophrys xianjuensis Megophryidae A new Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt (Amphibia, Megophryidae) from southeastern China [Bin Wang, Yan-Qing Wu, Jun-Wei Peng, Sheng-Chao Shi, Ning-Ning Lu, Jun Wu]
2020-01-16 Megophrys caobangensis Megophryidae A new species of Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Vietnam [RUONG QUANG NGUYEN, CUONG THE PHAM, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, ANH MAI LUONG, THOMAS ZIEGLER]

2019

Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
2019-12-31 Liurana himalayana,
Liurana indica,
Liurana minuta		 Ceratobatrachidae On the Liurana (Anura: Ceratobatrachidae) of India with the description of three new species from Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalayas [Bhaskar Saikia, Bikramjit Sinha]
2019-12-31 Kurixalus absconditus Rhacophoridae A new tree frog of the genus Kurixalus Ye, Fei & Dubois, 1999 (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) from West Kalimantan, Indonesia [Mediyansyah Mediyansyah, Amir Hamidy, Misbahul Munir, Masafumi Matsui]
2019-12-25 Amolops pallasitatus Ranidae Description of a New Species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from Tibet, China [Shuo QI; Zhengyan ZHOU; Zhitong LYU; Yuyan LU; Han WAN; Mian HOU; Keji GUO and Pipeng LI1]
2019-12-20 Sarcohyla toyota Hylidae A rare new treefrog of the genus Sarcohyla (Anura: Hylidae) from Guerrero, Mexico. [CHRISTOPH I. GRÜNWALD, HECTOR FRANZ-CHÁVEZ, KAREN I. MORALES-FLORES, IVAN T. AHUMADA-CARRILLO, JASON M. JONES]
2019-12-19 Ameerega imasmari,
Ameerega panguana		 Dendrobatidae Systematics of the Ameerega rubriventris complex (Anura: Dendrobatidae) with descriptions of two new cryptic species from the East-Andean versant of Peru [JASON L. BROWN, KAREN SIU-TING, RUDOLF VON MAY, EVAN TWOMEY, WILSON X. GUILLORY, MICHAEL S. DEUTSCH, GERMÁN CHÁVEZ]
2019-12-17 Osteocephalus omega Hylidae The last one: A new species of Osteocephalus (Anura: Hylidae) from Colombia, with comments on the morphological and behavioral diversity within the genus. [William E. Duellman]
2019-12-16 Zhangixalus pachyproctus Rhacophoridae A new species of Zhangixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae), previously confused with Zhangixalus smaragdinus (Blyth, 1852) [GUOHUA YU, HONG HUI, MIAN HOU, ZHENGJUN WU, DINGQI RAO, JUNXING YANG]
2019-12-15 Kurixalus absconditus Rhacophoridae A new tree frog of the genus Kurixalus Ye, Fei & Dubois, 1999 (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) from West Kalimantan, Indonesia [Mediyansyah Mediyansyah, Amir Hamidy, Misbahul Munir, Masafumi Matsui]
2019-12-11 Ischnocnema bocaina Brachycephalidae A new species of Ischnocnema Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 (Anura: Brachycephalidae) of the I. lactea species series from southeastern Brazil [PEDRO P. G. TAUCCE, BÁRBARA F. ZAIDAN, HUSSAM ZAHER, PAULO C. A. GARCIA]
2019-12-06 Rhacophorus vanbanicus Plethodontidae A New Species of Rhacophorus Genus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorinae) from Van Ban District, Lao Cai Province, Northern Vietnam [Ivan I. Kropachev, Nikolai L. Orlov, Hoa Thi Ninh, Tao Thien Nguyen]
2019-12-02 Salamandra algira atlantica Salamandridae A new subspecies of African fire salamander Salamandra algira (Urodela, Salamandridae) from the Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco [Axel Hernandez, Daniel Escoriza]
2019-11-15 Leptobrachella namdongensis Megophryidae A new species of Leptobrachella Smith 1925 (Anura: Megophryidae) from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam [Hoang Van Chung, Nguyen Thien Tao, Luu Quang Vinh, Nguyen Quang Truong & Jiang Jianping]
2019-11-11 Megophrys shunhuangensis Megophryidae A new species of the genus Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Hunan, China [LU WANG, XUEJIAN DENG, YONG LIU, QIANQIAN WU, ZHAO LIU]
2019-10-30 Caecilia museugoeldi Caeciliidae A new species of Caecilia (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) from the Magdalena valley region of Colombia [Andrés R. Acosta-Galvis, Mauricio Torres, Paola Pulido-Santacruz]
2019-10-14 Megophrys angka Megophryidae A new species of the genus Xenophrys (Anura:Megophryidae) from northern Thailand [Yun-He Wu,Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Parinya Paawangkhanant, Kai Xu, Jie-Qiong Jin, Robert W. Murphy,Jing Che]
2019-10-11 Leptodactylus apepyta Leptodactylidae A new frog of the Leptodactylus fuscus species group (Anura: Leptodactylidae), endemic from the South American Gran Chaco [Rosio G. Schneider, Dario E. Cardozo, Francisco Brusquetti, Francisco Kolenc, Claudio Borteiro, Célio Haddad, Nestor G. Basso, Diego Baldo]
2019-10-02 Sigalegalephrynus burnitelongensis
Sigalegalephrynus gayoluesensis
Sigalegalephrynus harveyi		 Bufonidae New species, diversity, systematics, and conservation assessment of the Puppet Toads of Sumatra (Anura: Bufonidae: Sigalegalephrynus) [GOUTAM C. SARKER, ELIJAH WOSTL, PANUPONG THAMMACHOTI, IRVAN SIDIK, AMIR HAMIDY, NIA KURNIAWAN, ERIC N. SMITH]
2019-10-01 Xenophrys angka Megophryidae A new species of the genus Xenophrys (Anura:Megophryidae) from northern Thailand [Yun-He Wu, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Nikolay A. Poyarkov,Jr., Parinya Paawangkhanant, Kai Xu, Jie-Qiong Jin, Robert W. Murphy, Jing Che]
2019-10-01 Megophrys kalimantanensis Megophryidae A new species of Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from Borneo allied to M. nasuta (Schlegel, 1858) [MISBAHUL MUNIR, AMIR HAMIDY, MASAFUMI MATSUI, DJOKO T. ISKANDAR, IRVAN SIDIK, TOMOHIKO SHIMADA]
2019-09-25 Scinax fontanarrosai Hylidae A review of the elusive bicolored iris Snouted Treefrogs (Anura: Hylidae:Scinax uruguayus group) [Diego Baldo, Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira, Dario Cardozo, Claudio Borteiro, Fernando Leal, Martín O. Pereyra, Francisco Kolenc, Mariana L. Lyra, Paulo C. A. Garcia, Célio F. B. Haddad, Julián Faivovich]
2019-10-01 Raorchestes cangyuanensis Rhacophoridae A new species of the genus Raorchestes (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Yunnan Province, China. [Yun-He Wu, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Kai Xu, Jin-Min Chen, Jie-Qiong Jin, Hong-Man Chen, Robert W. Murphy, Jing Che]
2019-09-23 Microhyla eos Microhylidae (Cophylinae) A new Microhyla species (Anura: Microhylidae) from riparian evergreen forest in the eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. [S. D. BIJU, SONALI GARG, RACHUNLIU G. KAMEI, GOPINATHAN MAHESWARAN]
2019-09-23 Scutiger ghunsa Megophryidae A New Species of Megophryid Frog of the Genus Scutiger from Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Eastern Nepal [Janak Raj KHATIWADA, Guocheng SHU, Tulsi Ram SUBEDI, Bin WANG, Annemarie OHLER, David C. CANATELLA, Feng XIE and Jianping JIANG]
2019-09-11 Bufotes cypriensis,
Bufotes perrini		 Bufonidae Fifteen shades of green: The evolution of Bufotes toads revisited [Christophe Dufresnes, Glib Mazepa, Daniel Jablonski, Ricardo Caliari Oliveira, Tom Wenseleers, Dmytro A.Shabanov, Markus Auer, Raffael Ernst, Claudia Koch, Héctor E.Ramírez-Chavesj, Kevin Patrick Mulder, Evgeniy Simonov, Arthur Tiutenko, Dmytro Kryvokhyzha, Paul L.Wennekes, Oleksandr I.Zinenko, Oleksiy V.Korshunov, Awadh M.Al-Johany, Evgeniy A.Peregontsev, Rafaqat Masroor, Caroline Betto-Colliard, Mathieu Denoël, Leo J. Borkiny, Dmitriy V. Skorinov, Roza A. Pasynkova, Lyudmila F.Mazanaeva, Juriy M. Rosanov ,Sylvain Dubey, Spartak Litvinchuk]
2019-08-31 Pelophryne ingeri Bufonidae A New Species of Pelophryne from Malay Peninsula (Anura, Bufonidae) [Masafumi Matsui]
2019-08-26 Noblella losamigos Craugastoridae A New Species of Terrestrial-Breeding Frog (Amphibia, Strabomantidae, Noblella) from the Upper Madre De Dios Watershed, Amazonian Andes and Lowlands of Southern Peru [Roy Santa-Cruz, Rudolf von May, Alessandro Catenazzi, Courtney Whitcher, Evaristo López Tejeda and Daniel L. Rabosky]
2019-08-23 Pristimantis nelsongalloi Craugastoridae A new species of terrestrial-breeding frog of the genus Pristimantis (Anura: Terrarana: Craugastoridae) from the eastern Andean slopes of the southern Ecuador [JORGE H. VALENCIA, FRANCISCO VALLADARES-SUNTASIG, LUIS TIPANTIZA-TUGUMINAGO, MANUEL R. DUEÑAS]
2019-08-15 Dendropsophus rozenmani Hylidae A new striped species of Dendropsophus (Anura: Hylidae) with a composite advertisement call and comments on the D. rubicundulus group [Martin Jansen, Diego José Santana, Bernardo Franco da Veiga Teixeira, Gunther Köhler]
2019-08-14 Ansonia kyaiktiyoensis Bufonidae Discovery of the westernmost population of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka (Anura, Bufonidae) with the description of a new species from the Shan Plateau of eastern Myanmar (Anura, Bufonidae) [EVAN S. H. QUAH, L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, MYINT KYAW THURA, JAMIE R. OAKS, AUNG LIN]
2019-08-14 Mantidactylus atsimo
Mantidactylus petakorona		 Mantellidae Species complexes and the importance of Data Deficient classification in Red List assessments: The case of Hylobatrachus frogs [Mark D. Scherz, Frank Glaw, Carl R. Hutter, Molly C. Bletz, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Jörn Köhler, MMiguel Vences]
2019-08-13 Spinomantis mirus Mantellidae A new species of the Spinomantis bertini species complex (Anura: Mantellidae) from Pic d’Ivohibe Special Reserve (Madagascar) [JOANA SABINO-PINTO, ANDOLALAO RAKOTOARISON, MOLLY C. BLETZ, DEVIN EDMONDS, FRANK GLAW, MIGUEL VENCES]
2019-08-12 Scinax garibaldiae Hylidae A New Species of the Scinax catharinae Group (Anura: Hylidae) from the Highlands of Santa Catarina, Brazil [Ana Carolina C. Lourenço, Rodrigo Lingnau, Célio F.B. Haddad, Julian Faivovich]
2019-08-12 Noblella naturetrekii Craugastoridae A new species of terrestrial frog of the genus Noblella Barbour, 1930 (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor, Tungurahua, Ecuador [Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Santiago Ron, Jhael A. Ortega, Juan M. Guayasamin, Mindee Goodrum, Fausto Recalde, Jose J. Vieira, Claudia Koch, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz]
2019-08-05 Sphaerotheca magadha Dicroglossidae A New Species of Sphaerotheca Gunther, 1859 (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Agro Ecosystems of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India [Vishal Kumar Prasad, K. P. Dinesh, Abhijit Das, Priyanka Swamy, Ajinkya D. Shinde, Jadhav Bapurao Vishnu]
2019-08-06 Hynobius guttatus,
Hynobius kuishiensis,
Hynobius tsurugiensis		 Hynobiidae A revision of Hynobius stejnegeri, a lotic breeding salamander from western Japan, with a description of three new species (Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) [ATSUSHI TOMINAGA, MASAFUMI MATSUI, SHINGO TANABE, KANTO NISHIKAWA]
2019-08-05 Cophyla fortuna Microhylidae (Cophylinae) Description of the lucky Cophyla (Microhylidae, Cophylinae), a new arboreal frog from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar. [ANDOLALAO RAKOTOARISON, MARK D. SCHERZ, MOLLY C. BLETZ, JARY H. RAZAFINDRAIBE, FRANK GLAW, MIGUEL VENCES]
2019-07-31 Pristimantis ferwerdai Craugastoridae A new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the cloud forests of Colombian western Andes [ADOLFO AMÉZQUITA, GUSTAVO SUÁREZ, PABLO PALACIOS-RODRÍGUEZ, IVÁN BELTRÁN, CAMILO RODRÍGUEZ, LUCAS S. BARRIENTOS, JUAN M. DAZA, LUIS MAZARIEGOS]
2019-07-31 Paratelmatobius segallai Leptodactylidae A new species of Paratelmatobius (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Paratelmatobiinae) from the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil [MARCUS THADEU TEIXEIRA SANTOS, SÍLVIA HELENA DE OLIVEIRA, THIAGO RIBEIRO DE CARVALHO, BÁRBARA FERNANDES ZAIDAN, NELSON RODRIGUES DA SILVA, BIANCA VON MÜLLER BERNECK, PAULO CHRISTIANO ANCHIETTA GARCIA]
2019-07-31 Allobates nunciatus Aromobatidae A new nurse frog of Allobates masniger-nidicola complex (Anura, Aromobatidae) from the east bank of Tapajós River, eastern Amazonia [LEANDRO JOÃO CARNEIRO DE LIMA MORAES, DANTE PAVAN, ALBERTINA PIMENTEL LIMA]
2019-07-29 Dendrophryniscus davori,
Dendrophryniscus haddadi,
Dendrophryniscus izecksohni,
Dendrophryniscus jureia		 Bufonidae Taxonomic review of Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, with revalidation of D. imitator (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920) and D. lauroi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, and description of four new related species (Anura, Bufonidae) [CARLOS ALBERTO GONÇALVES CRUZ, ULISSES CARAMASCHI, LUCIANA ARDENGHI FUSINATTO, CINTHIA AGUIRRE BRASILEIRO]
2019-07-05 Microhyla fodiens
Microhyla irrawaddy		 Microhylidae On the road to Mandalay: contribution to the Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) fauna of Myanmar with description of two new species [Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr., Vladislav A. Gorin, Than Zaw, Valentina D. Kretova, Svetlana S. Gogoleva, Parinya Pawangkhanant,Jing Che]
2019-07-05 Fejervarya kupitzi Dicroglossidae The genera Fejervarya and Minervarya in Myanmar: Description of a new species, new country records, and taxonomic notes (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) [Gunther Köhler, Linda Mogk, Khin Pa Pa Khaing & Ni Lar Than]
2019-07-05 Nanorana zhaoermii Dicroglossidae A New Species of Nanorana (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Southern Tibet, China [Shuo Qi, Zheng-Yan Zhou, Yu-Yan Lu, Jian-Li Li, Hai-Hua Qin, Mian Hou, Yu Zhang, Jian-Zhang Ma, Pi-Peng Li]
2019-07-04 Nidirana leishanensis Ranidae A new species of the Asian music frog genus Nidirana (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from Southwestern China [Shize Li, Gang Wei, Ning Xu, Jianguo Cui, Liang Fei, Jianping Jiang, Jing Liu, Bin Wang]
2019-07-02 Pelobates balcanicus chloeae Pelobatidae Call a spade a spade: taxonomy and distribution of Pelobates, with description of a new Balkan endemic [Christophe Dufresnes, Ilias Strachinis, Elias Tzoras, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Mathieu Denoël]
2019-07-02 Microhyla fanjingshanensis Microhylidae A new species of the genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Guizhou Province, China [SHIZE LI, MEIHUA ZHANG, NING XU, JINGCAI LV, JIANPING JIANG, JING LIU, GANG WEI, BIN WANG]
2019-07-01 Amolops ottorum Ranidae A new species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from Vietnam [Anh Van Pham, Nenh Ba Sung, Cuong The Pham, Minh Duc Le, Thomas Ziegler & Truong Quang Nguyen]
2019-07-01 Nidirana yaoica Ranidae Description of a new species of Music frogs (Anura, Ranidae, Nidirana) from Mt Dayao, southern China [Zhi-Tong Lyu, Yun-Ming Mo, Han Wan, Yu-Long Li, Hong Pang, Ying-Yong Wang]
2019-06-26 Cophyla (Platypelis) ando Microhylidae A new yellow-toed Platypelis species (Anura, Microhylidae, Cophylinae) from the Maroantsetra region, northeastern Madagascar. [Mark D. Scherz, Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw]
2019-06-11 Micryletta aishani Microhylidae A new species of Micryletta frog (Microhylidae) from Northeast India [Abhijit Das, Sonali Garg, Amir Hamidy, Eric N. Smith, S. D. Biju]
2019-06-05 Pristimantis andinogigas Craugastoridae A new giant Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae) from the paramos of the Podocarpus National Park, southern Ecuador [Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, David Veintimilla-Yánez, Diego Batallas, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia]
2019-06-03 Megophrys dongguanensis,
Megophrys jiulianensis,
Megophrys mufumontana,
Megophrys nankunensis,
Megophrys nanlingensis,
Megophrys wugongensis		 Megophryidae Description of six new species of the subgenus Panophrys within the genus Megophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from southeastern China based on molecular and morphological data [Jian Wang, Zhi-Tong Lyu, Zu-Yao Liu, Cheng-Kai Liao, Zhao-Chi Zeng, Jian Zhao, Yu-Long Li, Ying-Yong Wang]
2019-06-03 Gracixalus yunnanensis Rhacophoridae A new species of Gracixalus (Anura, Rhacophoridae) from Yunnan, China [Guohua Yu, Hong Hui, Jian Wang, Dingqi Rao, Zhengjun Wu, Junxing Yang]
2019-05-28 Callulops argus,
Callulops bicolor,
Callulops stellatus,
Callulops taxispilotus		 Microhylidae A revision of Callulops doriae (Anura: Microhylidae), with descriptions of four new species [FRED KRAUS]
2019-05-24 Plethodon pauleyi
 Plethodontidae Re-evaluation of the Wehrle’s salamander (Plethodon wehrlei Fowler and Dunn) species group (Caudata: Plethodontidae) using genomic data, with the description of a new species [ZACHARY I. FELIX, JESSICA A. WOOTEN, TODD W. PIERSON, CARLOS D. CAMP]
2019-05-24 Litoria pterodactyla
Litoria vivissimia		 Pelodryadidae Two new species of treefrog (Pelodrydidae: Litoria) from southern New Guinea elucidated by DNA barcoding [OLIVER, STEPHEN J. RICHARDS, STEPHEN C. DONNELLAN]
2019-05-23 Tomopterna branchi Pyxicephalidae A new sand frog from Namaqualand, South Africa (Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) [LYLE WILSON, ALAN CHANNING]
2019-05-23 Amolops shuichengicus Ranidae A new species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from China, with taxonomic comments on A. liangshanensis and Chinese populations of A. marmoratus [ZHI-TONG LYU, ZHAO-CHI ZENG, HAN WAN, JIAN-HUAN YANG, YU-LONG LI, HONG PANG, YING-YONG WANG]
2019-05-23 Diasporus amirae
 Eleutherodactylidae A new species of dink frog, genus Diasporus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae), from the Caribbean foothills of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica [ERICK ARIAS, GERARDO CHAVES, STANLEY SALAZAR, JOSÉ ANDRÉS SALAZAR-ZÚÑIGA, ADRIÁN GARCÍA-RODRÍGUEZ]
2019-05-20 Leptobrachella bijie
Leptobrachella purpuraventra		 Megophryidae Morphology, molecular genetics, and acoustics reveal two new species of the genus Leptobrachella from northwestern Guizhou Province, China (Anura, Megophryidae) [Jian Wang, Yu-Long Li, Yao Li, Hong-Hui Chen, Ya-Jun Zeng, Jing-Min Shen, Ying-Yong Wang]
2019-05-16 Limnonectes savan Dicroglossidae A new caruncle-bearing fanged frog (Limnonectes, Dicroglossidae) from Laos and Thailand [Somphouthone Phimmachak, Stephen J. Richards, Niane Sivongxay, Sengvilay Seateun, Yodchaiy Chuaynkern, Sunchai Makchai, Hannah E. Som, Bryan L. Stuart]
2019-05-15 Adenomera kweti Leptodactylidae A New, Morphologically Cryptic Species of Adenomera Closely Related to Adenomera araucaria from the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil (Anura, Leptodactylidae) [ Thiago R. de Carvalho, Carla S. Cassini, Pedro P. G. Taucce, Célio F. B. Haddad]
2019-05-15 Cophixalus cateae,
Cophixalus hannahae,
Oreophryne nicolasi		 Microhylidae Three new scansorial species of microhylid frogs (Anura: Cophixalus, Oreophryne) from Papua New Guinea [Stephen Richards & Rainer Günther]
2019-05-14 Litoria pinocchio Pelodryadidae Systematics of New Guinea treefrogs (Litoria: Pelodryadidae) with erectile rostral spikes: an extended description of Litoria pronimia and a new species from the Foja Mountains [PAUL M. OLIVER, RAINER GÜNTHER, MUMPUNI MUMPUNI, STEPHEN J. RICHARDS]
2019-05-13 Craugastor sagui,
Craugastor zunigai		 Craugastoridae Taxonomic assessment of Craugastor podiciferus (Anura: Craugastoridae) in lower Central America with the description of two new species [Erick Arias, Andreas Hertz, and Gabriela Parra-Olea]
2019-05-13 Craugastor blairi Craugastoridae Revalidation by Arias E, Hertz A, Parra-Olea G 2019
2019-05-08 Ikakogi ispacue Centrolenidae The poverty of adult morphology: Bioacoustics, genetics, and internal tadpole morphology reveal a new species of glassfrog (Anura: Centrolenidae: Ikakogi) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia [Marco Rada, Pedro Henrique Dos Santos Dias, José Luis Pérez-Gonzalez, Marvin Anganoy-Criollo, Luis Alberto Rueda-Solano, María Alejandra Pinto-E, Lilia Mejía Quintero, Fernando Vargas-Salinas, Taran Grant]
2019-04-26 Boophis nauticus
Blommersia transmarina		 Mantellidae Integrative evidence confirms new endemic island frogs and transmarine dispersal of amphibians between Madagascar and Mayotte (Comoros archipelago) [Frank Glaw, Oliver Hawlitschek, Kathrin Glaw, Miguel Vences]
2019-04-23 Noblella thiuni Craugastoridae Noblella thiuni sp. n., a new (singleton) species of minute terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forest of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru [Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito]
2019-04-08 Amolops mengdingensis Ranidae A new species of the Amolops monticola group (Anura: Ranidae) from southwestern Yunnan, China [GUOHUA YU, ZHENGJUN WU, JUNXING YANG]
2019-04-05 Amazophrynella bilinguis Bufonidae A new species of Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) with two distinct advertisement calls [IGOR LUIS KAEFER, ROMMEL R. ROJAS, MIQUÉIAS FERRÃO, IZENI PIRES FARIAS, ALBERTINA PIMENTEL LIMA]
2019-04-19 Tylototriton kachinorum Salamandridae A new species of Crocodile Newt, genus Tylototriton (Amphibia, Caudata, Salamandridae) from the mountains of Kachin State, northern Myanmar [Than Zaw,Paw Lay,Parinya Pawangkhanant,JVladislav A. Gorin,Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr]
2019-04-03 Anomaloglossus mitaraka Aromobatidae A new species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) of the stepheni group with the redescription of A. baeobatrachus (Boistel and de Massary, 1999), and an amended definition of A. leopardus Ouboter and Jairam, 2012 [ANTOINE FOUQUET, JEAN-PIERRE VACHER, ELODIE A. COURTOIS, CHLOÉ DESCHAMPS, PAUL OUBOTER, RAWIEN JAIRAM, PHILIPPE GAUCHER, ALAIN DUBOIS, PHILIPPE J. R. KOK]
2019-03-29 Liurana vallecula Ceratobatrachidae A new species of the endemic Himalayan genus Liurana (Anura, Ceratobatrachidae) from southeastern Tibet, China, with comments on the distribution, reproductive biology, and conservation of the genus [Ke Jiang, Kai Wang, Yu-Fan Wang, Cheng Li, Jing Che]
2019-03-27 Anodonthyla eximia,
Mini ature,
Mini mum,
Mini scule
Rhombophryne proportionalis		 Microhylidae Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera [Mark D. Scherz, Carl R. Hutter, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Jana C. Riemann, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Serge H. Ndriantsoa, Julian Glos, Sam Hyde Roberts, Angelica Crottini, Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw]
2019-03-25 Zhangixalus Rhacophoridae Neue Gattung Zhangixalus: Resurrection of the genus Leptomantis, with description of a new genus to the family Rhacophoridae (Amphibia: Anura) [Jiang, D., K. Jiang, J. Ren, J. Wu, and J. Li]
2019-03-19 Pristimantis mallii Craugastoridae A new species of terrestrial frog Pristimantis (Strabomantidae) from the upper basin of the Pastaza River, Ecuador [Carolina Reyes-Puig, Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Daniel A. Velarde-Garcéz, Nicolás Dávalos, Emilio Mancero, María José Navarrete, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Santiago R. Ron]
2019-03-14 Lynchius megacephalus Craugastoridae A bizarre new species of Lynchius (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Andes of Ecuador and first report of Lynchius parkeri in Ecuador [JUAN C. SÁNCHEZ-NIVICELA, VERONICA L. URGILES, MARÍA JOSÉ NAVARRETE, MARIO H. YÁNEZ-MUÑOZ, SANTIAGO RON]
2019-03-12 Astrobatrachus kurichiyana Nyctibatrachidae A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India [Vijayakumar SP, RA Pyron, KP Dinesh, VR Torsekar, AN Srikanthan, P Swamy, EL Stanley, DC Blackburn, and K. Shanker]
2019-03-01 Pristimantis calima
Pristimantis sneiderni		 Craugastoridae Two New Species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from Southwestern Colombia [Jhon Jairo Ospina-Sarria and William E. Duellman]
2019-02-28 Leptobrachella shangsiensis Megophryidae A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from southern Guangxi, China [WEICAI CHEN, XIAOWEN LIAO, SHICHU ZHOU, YUNMING MO]
2019-02-27 Gastrotheca cuencana,
Gastrotheca elicioi,
Gastrotheca turnerorum,
Gastrotheca yacuri		 Hemiphractidae Phylogenetic systematics, ecology, and conservation of marsupial frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae) from the Andes of southern Ecuador, with descriptions of four new biphasic species [SOFÍA CARVAJAL-ENDARA, LUIS A. COLOMA, MANUEL A. MORALES-MITE, JUAN M. GUAYASAMIN, PAUL SZÉKELY, WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN]
2019-02-26 Nymphargus manduriacu Centrolenidae A new glassfrog (Centrolenidae) from the Chocó-Andean Río Manduriacu Reserve, Ecuador, endangered by mining [Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, José Vieira, Sebastián Kohn, Gabriela Gavilanes, Ryan L. Lynch, Paul S. Hamilton, Ross J. Maynard]
2019-02-13 Mysticellus franki Microhylidae (Microhylinae) Neue Gattung Mysticellus
New microhylid frog genus from Peninsular India with Southeast Asian affinity suggests multiple Cenozoic biotic exchanges between India and Eurasia [Sonali Garg & S. D. Biju]
2019-02-12 Phrynobatrachus bibita Phrynobatrachidae A new species of puddle frog from an unexplored mountain in southwestern Ethiopia (Anura, Phrynobatrachidae, Phrynobatrachus) [Sandra Goutte, Jacobo Reyes-Velasco, Stephane Boissinot]
2019-02-11 Megophrys ombrophila Megophryidae A new species of the genus Megophrys Gunther, 1864 (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Mount Wuyi, China [KEVIN R. MESSENGER, HOLLIS A. DAHN, YUANRUI LIANG, PENG XIE, YONG WANG, CHANGHU LU]
2019-02-11 Charadrahyla sakbah Hylidae A new species of Charadrahyla (Anura: Hylidae) from the cloud forest of western Oaxaca, Mexico [VÍCTOR H. JIMÉNEZ-ARCOS, RAFAEL ALEJANDRO CALZADA-ARCINIEGA, LIZ A. ALFARO-JUANTORENA, LEOPOLDO D. VÁZQUEZ-REYES, CHRISTOPHER BLAIR, GABRIELA PARRA-OLEA]
2019-02-07 Adenomera phonotriccus Leptodactylidae A New Amazonian Species of Adenomera (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the Brazilian State of Pará: A Tody-Tyrant Voice in a Frog [Thiago R. De Carvalho, Ariovaldo A. Giaretta, Ariadne Angulo, Célio F.B. Haddad, and Pedro L.V. Peloso]
2019-02-01 Hynobius abuensis,
Hynobius akiensis,
Hynobius bakan,
Hynobius iwami,
Hynobius setoi,
Hynobius setouchi,
Hynobius utsunomiyaorum		 Hynobiidae Systematics of the Widely Distributed Japanese Clouded Salamander, Hynobius nebulosus (Amphibia: Caudata: Hynobiidae), and Its Closest Relatives [Masafumi Matsui, Hiroshi Okawa, Kanto Nishikawa, Gen Aoki, Koshiro Eto, Natsuhiko Yoshikawa, Shingo Tanabe, Yasuchika Misawa, Atsushi Tominaga]
2019-01-29 Hynobius oyamai,
Hynobius sematonotos		 Hynobiidae Two new species of lotic breeding salamanders (Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) from western Japan [ATSUSHI TOMINAGA, MASAFUMI MATSUI, KANTO NISHIKAWA]
2019-01-26 Pseudophilautus conniffae Rhacophoridae Description of a new species of Pseudophilautus (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) from southern Sri Lanka [Sudesh Batuwita, Madura De Silva, Sampath Udugampala]
2019-01-23 Allobates carajas Aromobatidae A name for the nurse-frog (Allobates, Aromobatidae) of Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Eastern Brazilian Amazonia [PEDRO IVO SIMÕES, DIANA ROJAS, ALBERTINA P. LIMA]
2019-01-18 Scutiger tengchongensis Megophryidae A New Species of Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Gaoligongshan Mountain Range, China [Jian-Huan Yang and Xiang-Yuan Huang]
2019-01-12 Fejervarya marathi Dicroglossidae A new species of Fejervarya Bolkay, 1915 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the northern Western Ghats parts of Maharashtra, India [SAMADHAN PHUGE, K.P. DINESH, RAMNATH ANDHALE, KALYANI BHAKARE, RADHAKRISHNA PANDIT]
2019-01-09 Microhyla aurantiventris Microhylidae A new species of the genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Tay Nguyen Plateau, Central Vietnam [LUAN THANH NGUYEN, NIKOLAY A. JR. POYARKOV, TIEP TAN NGUYEN, TAM AI NGUYEN, VY HUU TRAN, VLADISLAV A. GORIN, ROBERT W. MURPHY, SANG NGOC NGUYEN]
2019-01-03 Amolops sinensis,
Amolops yatseni 		 Ranidae Description of two cryptic species of the Amolops ricketti group (Anura, Ranidae) from southeastern China [Zhi-Tong Lyu, Lin-Sheng Huang, Jian Wang, Yuan-Qiu Li, Hong-Hui Chen, Shuo Qi, Ying-Yong Wang]

2018

Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
2018-01-04 Rana lenca Ranidae An integrative assessment of the taxonomic status of putative hybrid leopard frogs (Anura: Ranidae) from the Chortís Highlands of Central America, with description of a new species [Ileana Luque-Montes, James D. Austin, Kayla D. Weinfurth, Larry David Wilson, Erich P. Hofmann & Josiah H. Townsend]
2018-01-08 Nototriton costaricense Plethodontidae A new moss salamander, genus Nototriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from the Cordillera de Talamanca, in the Costa Rica-Panama border region [ERICK ARIAS, BRIAN KUBICKI]
2018-01-08 Dendropsophus kamagarini
Dendropsophus kubricki		 Hylidae Species limits within the widespread Amazonian treefrog Dendropsophus parviceps with descriptions of two new species (Anura, Hylidae) [C. Daniel Rivadeneira, Pablo J. Venegas, Santiago R. Ron]
2018-01-09 Cornufer exedrus Ceratobatrachidae A new miniature Melanesian Forest Frog (Ceratobatrachidae: Cornufer) from New Britain Island, constituting the first record of the subgenus Batrachylodes from outside of the Solomon Archipelago [SCOTT L. TRAVERS, STEPHEN J. RICHARDS, TAYLOR S. BROADHEAD, RAFE M. BROWN]
2018-01-22 Phrynobatrachus afiabirago Phrynobatrachidae A new species of Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana [CALEB OFORI-BOATENG, ADAM D. LEACHÉ, BRIGHT OBENG-KANKAM, N’GORAN GERMAIN KOUAMÉ, ANNIKA HILLERS, MARK-OLIVER RÖDEL]
2018-01-25 Limnonectes coffeatus Dicroglossidae A new Limnonectes (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from southern Laos [SOMPHOUTHONE PHIMMACHAK, NIANE SIVONGXAY, SENGVILAY SEATEUN, SIRIPORN YODTHONG, ATTAPOL RUJIRAWAN, THY NEANG, ANCHALEE AOWPHOL, BRYAN L. STUART]
2018-02-05 Fritziana zecksohni Hemiphractidae A New Bromeligenous Species of Fritziana Mello-Leitão, 1937 (Amphibia: Anura: Hemiphractidae) from High Elevations in the Serra Dos Órgãos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Manuella Folly, Fábio Hepp, and Sergio P. Carvalho-e-Silva]
2018-02-09 Scinax ruberoculatus Hylidae A new species of Amazonian snouted treefrog (Hylidae: Scinax) with description of a novel species-habitat association for an aquatic breeding frog [Miquéias Ferrão, Rafael de Fraga, Jiří Moravec, Igor L. Kaefer and Albertina P. Lima]
2018-02-13 Anomaloglossus blanci
Anomaloglossus dewynteri		 Aromobatidae On the brink of extinction: two new species of Anomaloglossus from French Guiana and amended definitions of Anomaloglossus degranvillei and A. surinamensis (Anura: Aromobatidae) [FOUQUET ANTOINE, JEAN-PIERRE VACHER, ELODIE A. COURTOIS, BENOIT VILLETTE, HUGO REIZINE, PHILIPPE GAUCHER, RAWIEN JAIRAM, PAUL OUBOTER, PHILIPPE J. R. KOK]
2018-02-14 Hyperolius stictus Hyperoliidae A new Reed Frog (Hyperoliidae: Hyperolius) from coastal northeastern Mozambique [WERNER CONRADIE, LUKE VERBURGT, DANIEL M. PORTIK, ANNEMARIE OHLER, BERYL A. BWONG, LUCINDA P. LAWSON]
2018-02-16 Theloderma kwangsiensis Rhacophoridae Theloderma kwangsiensis ist ein Synonym für Theloderma corticale:
Rediscovery of Rhacophorus yaoshanensis and Theloderma kwangsiensis at their type localities after five decades [WEICAI CHEN, XIAOWEN LIAO, SHICHU ZHOU, YUNMING MO, YONG HUANG]
2018-02-20 Ansonia phuketensis
Ansonia pilokensis		 Bufonidae Two New Species of Ansonia From Thailand (Anura: Bufonidae) [Masafumi Matsui, Wichase Khonsue and Somsak Panha]
2018-02-20 Hyloscirtus japreria Hylidae A new species of Hyloscirtus (Anura, Hylidae) from the Colombian and Venezuelan slopes of Sierra de Perijá, and the phylogenetic position of Hyloscirtus jahni (Rivero, 1961) [FERNANDO J. M. ROJAS-RUNJAIC, EDWIN E. INFANTE-RIVERO, PATRICIA E. SALERNO, FABIO LEONARDO MEZA-JOYA]
2018-02-22 Nothophryne baylissi
Nothophryne inagoensis
Nothophryne ribauensis
Nothophryne unilurio		 Pyxicephalidae New Species of Mongrel Frogs (Pyxicephalidae: Nothophryne) for northern Mozambique Inselbergs [Conradie W, Bittencourt-Silva GB, Farooq HM, Loader SP, Menegon M, Tolley KA]
2018-02-23 Siamophryne troglodytes Microhylidae A striking new genus and species of cave-dwelling frog (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae: Asterophryinae) from Thailand [Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Montri Sumontha, Jitthep Tunprasert, Thiti Ruangsuwan, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Dmitriy V. Korost, Nikolay A. Poyarkov]
2018-02-26 Allobates juami Aromobatidae A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Juami River basin, northwestern Brazilian Amazonia [PEDRO IVO SIMÕES, GIUSSEPE GAGLIARDI-URRUTIA, FERNANDO J. M. ROJAS-RUNJAIC, SANTIAGO CASTROVIEJO-FISHER]
2018-02-26 Choerophryne bickfordi Microhylidae A new species of Choerophryne (Anura: Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea [Fred Kraus]
2018-02-27 Psychrophrynella glauca Craugastoridae Psychrophrynella glauca sp. n., a new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forests of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru [ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI, ALEX TTITO]
2018-02-28 Physalaemus carrizorum Leptodactylidae A new species of Physalaemus (Anura, Leptodactylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of Misiones, northeastern Argentina. [DARIO E. CARDOZO, MARTIN O. PEREYRA]
2018-03-01 Leptolalax rowleyae Megophryidae A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from Son Tra Peninsula, central Vietnam [LUAN THANH NGUYEN, NIKOLAY A. JR. POYARKOV, DZUNG TRUNG LE, BA DINH VO, HOA THI PHAN, TANG VAN DUONG, ROBERT W. MURPHY, SANG NGOC NGUYEN]
2018-03-01 Nasutixalus yingjiangensis Rhacophoridae A new phytotelm-breeding treefrog of the genus Nasutixalus (Rhacophoridae) from western Yunnan of China [JIAN-HUAN YANG, BOSCO PUI-LOK CHAN]
2018-03-02 Phrynobatrachus tanoeensis Phrynobatrachidae A new Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae), from the eastern part of the Upper Guinea biodiversity hotspot, West Africa [TOKOUAHO FLORA KPAN, N’GORAN GERMAIN KOUAMÉ, MICHAEL F. BAREJ, PATRICK JOËL ADEBA, MIKE EMMRICH, CALEB OFORI-BOATENG, MARK-OLIVER RÖDEL]
2018-03-10 Sumaterana (neue Gattung)
Sumaterana dabulescens
Sumaterana montana		 Ranidae Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of A Taxonomically Unstable Ranid from Sumatra, Indonesia, reveals A New Genus with Gastromyzophorous Tadpoles and Two New Species [Umilaela Arifin, Utpal Smart, Stefan T. Hertwig, Eric N. Smith, Djoko T. Iskandar and Alexander Haas]
2018-03-14 Pristimantis antisuyu
Pristimantis erythroinguini		 Craugastoridae Pristimantis antisuyu sp. n. and Pristimantis erythroinguinis sp. n., two new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the eastern slopes of the Andes in Manu National Park, Peru [ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI, EDGAR LEHR.]
2018-03-15 Gephyromantis lomorina Mantellidae A distinctive new frog species (Anura, Mantellidae) supports the biogeographic linkage of two montane rainforest massifs in northern Madagascar [Mark D. Scherz, Oliver Hawlitschek, Jary H. Razafindraibe, Steven Megson, Fanomezana Mihaja Ratsoavina, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Molly C. Bletz, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences]
2018-03-15 Sylvirana Ranidae 5 neue Arten der Gattung Sylvirana
Hidden species diversity in Sylvirana nigrovittata (Amphibia: Ranidae) highlights the importance of taxonomic revisions in biodiversity conservation [Jennifer A. Sheridan, Bryan L. Stuart]
2018-03-21 Pachytriton airobranchiatus Salamandridae The tenth member of stout newt (Amphibia: Salamandridae: Pachytriton): Description of a new species from Guangdong, southern China [CHEN LI, ZHIYONG YUAN, HAIBIN LI, YUNKE WU]
2018-04-04 Hydromantes samweli
Hydromantes wintu		 Plethodontidae Phylogeography and Species Boundaries In the Hydromantes shastae Complex, With Description of Two New Species (Amphibia; Caudata; Plethodontidae) [Robert E. Bingham, Theodore J. Papenfuss, Len Lindstrand III and David B. Wake]
2018-04-05 Peltophryne armata Bufonidae A new species of Caribbean toad (Bufonidae, Peltophryne) from southern Hispaniola [MIGUEL A. LANDESTOY T., DANIEL B. TURNER, ANGELA B. MARION, S. BLAIR HEDGES]
2018-04-09 Phyllodytes praeceptor Hylidae Another new species of Phyllodytes (Anura: Hylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil [VICTOR G. D. ORRICO, IURI R. DIAS, EUVALDO MARCIANO-JR.]
2018-04-12 Brachycephalus actaeus Brachycephalidae A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura, Brachycephalidae) from the coast of Santa Catarina State, southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil [JULIANE PETRY DE CARLI MONTEIRO, THAIS HELENA CONDEZ, PAULO CHRISTIANO DE ANCHIETTA GARCIA, ESTEVÃO JASPER COMITTI, IVAN BOREL AMARAL, CÉLIO FERNANDO BAPTISTA HADDAD]
2018-04-10 Leptolalax purpurus
Leptolalax yingjiangensis		 Megophryidae Description of two new sympatric species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from western Yunnan of China [Jian-Huan Yang, Zhao-Chi Zeng, Ying-Yong Wang]
2018-04-14 Leptolalax macrops Megophryidae A new species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from southern Vietnam [Tang Van Duong, Dang Trong Do, Chung Dac Ngo, Truong Quang Nguyen, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr]
2018-04-20 Vietnamophryne Microhylidae Neue Gattung und 3 neue Arten
A new genus and three new species of miniaturized microhylid frogs from Indochina (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae: Asterophryinae) [Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr., Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Akrachai Aksornneam, Tang Van Duong, Dmitriy V. Korost, Jing Che]
2018-04-20 Pristimantis erythros Craugastoridae A new species of Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae) from the Cajas Massif, southern Ecuador [Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela, Elvis Celi-Piedra, Valentina Posse-Sarmiento, Verónica L. Urgilés, Mario Yánez-Muñoz, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia]
2018-04-23 Megophrys feii Megophryidae A new species of the genus Megophrys (Anura: Megophryidae) from Yunnan Province, China [JIAN-HUAN YANG, JIAN WANG, YING-YONG WANG]
2018-05-01 Caecilia museugoeldi Caeciliidae A new species of Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from French Guiana [Adriano Oliveira Maciel I , Marinus Steven Hoogmoed]
2018-05-01 Amolops wenshanensis Ranidae A new species of cascade frog (Amphibia: Ranidae) in the Amolops monticola group from China [ZHIYONG YUAN, JIEQIONG JIN, JIANNAN LI, BRYAN L. STUART, JUN WU]
2018-05-03 Guibemantis milingilingy Mantellidae Stumbling upon a New Frog Species of Guibemantis (Anura: Mantellidae) on Top of the Marojejy Massif in Northern Madagascar [Molly C. Bletz , Mark D. Scherz , Andolalao Rakotoarison , Richard M. Lehtinen , Frank Glaw , and Miguel Vences]
2018-05-04 Fejervarya goemchi Dicroglossidae A New Species of Fejervarya bolkay, 1915 from the Lateritic Plateaus of the Goa Parts of the Western Ghats [K. P. Dinesh, Nirmal U. Kulkarni, Priyanka Swamy, P. Deepak]
2018-05-08 Pristimantis barrigai Craugastoridae Una especie nueva de rana Pristimantis (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) de ojos rojos de la Cordillera de Cóndor, Ecuador [Brito, Jorge; Almendáriz, Ana]
2018-05-08 Pristimantis caniari Craugastoridae Ranas terrestres en los ecosistemas surandinos de Ecuador IV: Una nueva especie de Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) de los páramos sur del Parque Nacional Sangay [Salomón M. Ramírez-Jaramillo, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Diego Batallas, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz]
2018-05-08 Pulchrana fantastica Ranidae A new species of the genus Pulchrana Dubois, 1992 (Amphibia, Ranidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia [Umilaela Arifin, Ganjar Cahyadi, Utpal Smart, André Jankowski, Alexander Haas]
2018-05-08 Theloderma auratum Rhacophoridae A new species of the genus Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Tay Nguyen Plateau, central Vietnam [Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr., Ivan I. Kropachev, Svetlana S. Gogoleva, Nikolai L. Orlov]
2018-05-11 Amolops yunkaiensis Ranidae A new species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from southwestern Guangdong, China [ZHI-TONG LYU, JUN WU, JIAN WANG, YIK-HEI SUNG, ZU-YAO LIU, ZHAO-CHI ZENG, XIN WANG, YOU-YU LI, YING-YONG WANG]
2018-05-16 Microhyla kodial Microhylidae A new species of Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Anura: Microhylidae) from West Coast of India: an integrative taxonomic approach [KUMAR K. VINEETH, U. K. RADHAKRISHNA, R. D. GODWIN, SAHA ANWESHA, K. PATIL RAJASHEKHAR, N. A. ARAVIND]
2018-05-16 Gracixalus guangdongensis Rhacophoridae Description of a new species of Gracixalus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Guangdong Province, southeastern China [JIAN WANG, ZHAO-CHI ZENG, ZHI-TONG LYU, ZU-YAO LIU, YING-YONG WANG]
2018-05-16 Pseudopaludicola restinga Leptodactylidae A new species of Pseudopaludicola (Anura, Leiuperinae) from Espírito Santo, Brazil. [Dario E. Cardozo, Diego Baldo, Nadya Pupin, João Luiz Gasparini and Célio F. Baptista Haddad]
2018-05-23 Hynobius tosashimizuensis Hynobiidae Morphological and Molecular Analyses of Hynobius dunni Reveal a New Species from Shikoku, Japan [Hirotaka Sugawara, Takashi Watabe, Takaomi Yoshikawa, and Masahiro Nagano]
2018-05-23 Craugastor castanedai
Craugastor gutschei		 Craugastoridae A Discussion of the Phenetic-based Craugastor laticeps Species Group (Anura: Brachycephaloidea: Craugastoridae) from North-central Honduras, with the Description of Two New Species [James R. McCranie]
2018-05-24 Sarcohyla hapsa Hylidae Systematics of the frogs allocated to Sarcohyla bistincta sensu lato (Cope, 1877), with description of a new species from Western Mexico [JONATHAN A. CAMPBELL, EDMUND D. JR. BRODIE, ITZUE W. CAVIEDES-SOLIS, ADRIÁN NIETO-MONTES DE OCA, VÍCTOR H. LUJA, OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA, URI OMAR GARCÍA-VÁZQUEZ, GOUTAM CHANDRA SARKER, ELIJAH WOSTL, ERIC N. SMITH]
2018-05-28 Choerophryne pipiens
Oreophryne albitympanum		 Microhylidae Two new frog species from the Foja Mountains in north­ western New Guinea (Amphibia, Anura, Micro hylidae) [Rainer Günther, Stephen Richards & Burhan Tjaturadi]
2018-05-28 Anomaloglossus meansi Aromobatidae Anomaloglossus meansi sp. n., a new Pantepui species of the Anomaloglossus beebei group (Anura, Aromobatidae) [Philippe J.R. Kok, Michaël P.J. Nicolaï, Amy Lathrop, Ross D. MacCulloch]
2018-05-30 Phasmahyla lisbella Phyllomedusidae Unrevealing the leaf frogs Cerrado diversity: A new species of spotted leaf frog, genus Phasmahyla (Amphibia, Phyllomedusidae) from Southeast Brazil [Elvis Almeida Pereira, Lucas Custódio Lomba Rocha, Henrique Folly, Hélio Ricardo da Silva, Diego José Santana]
2018-05-30 Ololygon goya Hylidae A new species of the Ololygon catharinae species group (Anura: Hylidae) from the Cerrado biome, State of Goiás, Central Brazil [SHEILA PEREIRA DE ANDRADE, DANUSY LOPES SANTOS, CEZAR FILHO ROCHA, JOSÉ P. JR. POMBAL, WILIAN VAZ-SILVA]
2018-06-07

Hemiphractus eliotiy
Hemiphractus kaylockae

 Hemiphractidae A taxonomic review of the genus Hemiphractus (Anura: Hemiphractidae) in Panama: Description of Two New Species, Resurrection of Hemiphractus panamensis (Stejneger, 1917), and Discussion of Hemiphractus fasciatus Peters, 1862 [ROBERT L. HILL, KATHRYN G. MARTIN, EDWARD STANLEY, JOSEPH R. III MENDELSON]
2018-06-07 Fejervarya kalinga
Fejervarya krishnan		 Dicroglossidae Two New Species of Cricket Frogs of the Genus Fejervarya bolkay, 1915 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Peninsular India [Prudhvi Raj, K. P. Dinesh, Abhijit Das, Sushil K. Dutta, Niladri B. Kar, Pratyush P. Mohapatra]
2018-06-11 Pseudopaludicola florencei Leptodactylidae A new species of Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) from eastern Brazil, with novel data on the advertisement call of Pseudopaludicola falcipes (Hensel). [FELIPE SILVA DE ANDRADE, ISABELLE AQUEMI HAGA, MARIANA LÚCIO LYRA, FELIPE SÁ FORTES LEITE, AXEL KWET, CÉLIO FERNANDO BAPTISTA HADDAD, LUÍS FELIPE TOLEDO, ARIOVALDO ANTONIO GIARETTA]
2018-06-15 Amolops australis
Amolops gerutu		 Ranidae Elevational size variation and two new species of torrent frogs from Peninsular Malaysia (Anura: Ranidae: Amolops Cope) [CHAN KIN ONN, ROBIN KURIAN ABRAHAM, JESSE L. GRISMER, L. LEE GRISMER]
2018-06-15 Ischnocnema feioi
Ischnocnema garciai		 Brachycephalidae Two New Species of Ischnocnema (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Southeastern Brazil and their Phylogenetic Position within the I. guentheri Series [Pedro P.G. Taucce, Clarissa Canedo, and Célio F.B. Haddad]
2018-06-15 Gephyromantis grosjeani
Gephyromantis saturnini		 Mantellidae Two new Madagascan frog species of the Gephyromantis (Duboimantis) tandroka complex from northern Madagascar [Mark D. Scherz, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana Mihaja Ratsoavina, Oliver Hawlitschek, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw]
2018-06-21 Hynobius fossigenus Hynobiidae An integrative taxonomic analysis reveals a new species of lotic Hynobius salamander from Japan [ Hisanori Okamiya, Hirotaka Sugawara, Masahiro Nagano, Nikolay A. Poyarkov]
2018-06-26 Oreobates antrum Craugastoridae A new cryptic species of Oreobates (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the seasonally dry tropical forest of central Brazil [WILIAN VAZ-SILVA, NATAN MEDEIROS MACIEL, SHEILA PEREIRA DE ANDRADE, RENATA CECÍLIA AMARO]
2018-07-02 Ischnocnema colibri
Ischnocnema parnaso		 Brachycephalidae Molecular phylogeny of Ischnocnema (Anura: Brachycephalidae) with the redefinition of its series and the description of two new species [Pedro P.G.Taucce, Clarissa Canedo, Júlia Soares Parreiras, Leandro O.Drummond, Paulo Nogueira-Costa, Célio F.B.Haddad]
2018-07-03 Megophrys lancip Megophryidae A New Megophrys Kuhl and Van Hasselt (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia [MISBAHUL MUNIR, AMIR HAMIDY, ACHMAD FARAJALLAH, ERIC N. SMITH]
2018-07-04 Kurixalus yangi Rhacophoridae A new species of Kurixalus from western Yunnan, China (Anura, Rhacophoridae) [expand article infoGuohua Yu, Hong Hui, Dingqi Rao, Junxing YangG]
2018-07-10 Leptolalax mangshanensis Megophryidae A new species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Hunan, China [YINMENG HOU, MENGFEI ZHANG, FEI HU, SIYUAN LI, SHENGCHAO SHI, JUN CHEN, XIAOYANG MO, BIN WANG]
2018-07-09 Amazophrynella moisesii
Amazophrynella siona
Amazophrynella teko
Amazophrynella xinguensis		 Bufonidae A Pan-Amazonian species delimitation: high species diversity within the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) [ Rommel R. Rojas, Antoine Fouquet, Santiago R. Ron, Emil José Hernández-Ruz, Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio, Juan C. Chaparro, Richard C. Vogt, Vinicius Tadeu de Carvalho, Leandra Cardoso Pinheiro, Robson W. Avila, Izeni Pires Farias, Marcelo Gordo, Tomas Hrbek]
2018-07-11 Allobates tinae Aromobatidae A New Nurse Frog from Brazil (Aromobatidae: Allobates), with Data on the Distribution and Phenotypic Variation of Western Amazonian Species [Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio, Renan M. De Oliveira and Ivan Prates]
2018-07-16 Gracixalus tianlinensis Rhacophoridae A New Species of Gracixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from West Guangxi, China [Weicai CHEN, Yongjian BEI, Xiaowen LIA, Shichu ZHOU and Yunming MO]
2018-07-19 Guibemantis albomaculatus
Guibemantis woosteri		 Mantellidae Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar [Richard M. LEHTINEN, Frank GLAW, Miguel VENCES, Andolalao RAKOTOARISON & Mark D. SCHERZ]
2018-07-19 Phrynopus mariellaleo Craugastoridae A new species of Phrynopus from the northeastern Andes of Peru, its phylogenetic position, and notes on the relationships of Holoadeninae (Anura: Craugastoridae) [PABLO J. VENEGAS, ANDY C. BARBOZA, IGNACIO DE LA RIVA, JOSÉ M. PADIAL]
2018-07-20 Boana iacamiaba Hylidae Phylogeny of Map Tree Frogs, Boana semilineata Species Group, with a New Amazonian Species (Anura: Hylidae) [Pedro L.V. Peloso, Renan M. De Oliveira, Marcelo J. Sturaro, Miguel T. Rodrigues, Geraldo R. Lima-Filho, Youszef O.C. Bitar, Ward C. Wheeler and Alexandre Aleixo]
2018-07-25 Scinax caprarius Hylidae Una nueva rana de huesos verdes del género Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) asociada a los bosques subandinos de la cuenca del río Magdalena, Colombia Una nueva rana de huesos verdes del género Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) asociada a los bosques subandinos de la cuenca del río Magdalena, Colombia [Andrés R. Acosta-Galvis]
2018-07-25 Hyloxalus sanctamariensis Dendrobatidae Una nueva rana nodriza (Anura: Dendrobatidae) de los bosques de niebla asociados a la cuenca del Orinoco de Colombia [Andrés R. Acosta-Galvis y Adrián Pinzón]
2018-07-25 Hypogeophis montanus Indotyphlidae A new species of small, long-snouted Hypogeophis Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the highest elevations of the Seychelles island of Mahé [SIMON T. MADDOCK, MARK WILKINSON, DAVID J. GOWER]
2018-07-26 Leptobrachella wuhuangmontis
Leptobrachella yunkaiensis		 Megophryidae Morphology and molecular genetics reveal two new Leptobrachella species in southern China (Anura, Megophryidae) [Jian Wang, Jianhuan Yang, Yao Li, Zhitong Lyu, Zhaochi Zeng, Zuyao Liu, Youhua Ye, Yingyong Wang]
2018-07-26 Cruziohyla sylviae Phyllomedusidae Review of the genus Cruziohyla (Anura: Phyllomedusidae), with description of a new species [ANDREW R. GRAY]
2018-07-27 Hyloxalus felixcoperari Dendrobatidae A new species of Hyloxalus Jiménez De La Espada, 1871 ‘‘1870’’ (Anura: Dendrobatidae: Hyloxalinae) from a cloud forest near Bogotá, Colombia, with comments on the subpunctatus clade [Andrés R. Acosta-Galvis, Mario Vargas-Ramírez]
2018-07-27 Eleutherodactylus geitonos Eleutherodactylidae Nueva rana del grupo de especies Eleutherodactylus abbotti (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) de la Hispaniola, con comentarios bioacústicos y taxonómicos de otras especies [Díaz LM, Incháustegui SJ, Marte C, Köhler G, Cádiz A, and Rodríguez M]
2018-07-28 Leptophryne javanica Bufonidae Detection of Cryptic taxa in the genus Leptophryne (Fitzinger, 1843) (Amphibia; Bufonidae) and the description of a new species from Java, Indonesia [AMIR HAMIDY, MISBAHUL MUNIR, MUMPUNI MUMPUNI, MILA RAHMANIA, AZIS ABDUL KHOLIK]
2018-08-08 Litoria nullicedens
Litoria pallidofemora		 Pelodryadidae Taxonomy of Litoria graminea (Anura: Hylidae), with descriptions of two closely related new species [FRED KRAUS]
2018-08-20 Poyntonophrynus pachnodes Bufonidae TA new earless species of Poyntonophrynus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola [Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Mariana P. Marques, Suzana Bandeira, Ishan Agarwal, Edward L. Stanley, Aaron M. Bauer, Mathew P. Heinicke, David C. Blackburn]
2018-08-15 Boophis masoala Mantellidae Eye and Webbing Colouration As Predictors of Specific Distinctness: A Genetically Isolated New Treefrog Species of the Boophis albilabris Group from the Masoala Peninsula, northeastern Madagascar [Frank Glaw, Mark D. Scherz, David Prötzel & Miguel Vences]
2018-08-22 Leucostethus jota Dendrobatidae A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the eastern versant of the Central Cordillera of Colombia and the phylogenetic status of Colostethus fraterdanieli [CARLOS M. MARIN, CLAUDIA MOLINA-ZULUAGA, ADRIANA RESTREPO, ESTEFANY CANO, JUAN M. DAZA]
2018-08-23 Mannophryne molinai Aromobatidae Unveiling species diversity in collared frogs through morphological and bioacoustic evidence: a new Mannophryne (Amphibia, Aromobatidae) from Sierra de Aroa, northwestern Venezuela, and an amended definition and call description of M. herminae (Boettger, 1893) [FERNANDO J.M. ROJAS-RUNJAIC, MIGUEL E. MATTA-PEREIRA, ENRIQUE LA MARCA]
2018-08-23 Lankanectes pera Nyctibatrachidae A new frog species from rapidly dwindling cloud forest streams of Sri Lanka—Lankanectes pera (Anura, Nyctibatrachidae) [GAYANI SENEVIRATHNE, V.A.M.P.K. SAMARAWICKRAMA, NAYANA WIJAYATHILAKA, KELUM MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI, GAYAN BOWATTE, D.R.N.S. SAMARAWICKRAMA, MADHAVA MEEGASKUMBURA]
2018-08-28 Ptychadena mutinondoensis Ptychadenidae A new grass frog with rupicolous tadpoles from northern Zambia (Anura: Ptychadenidae) [ALAN CHANNING, FRANK WILLEMS]
2018-08-29 Pristimantis tiktik Craugastoridae A new minute Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Andes of southern Ecuador [Paul Székely, Juan Sebastián Eguiguren, Diana Székely, Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado, Diego Armijos-Ojeda, María Lorena Riofrío-Guamán, Dan Cogălniceanu]
2018-08-31 Leptobrachella bondangensis
Leptobrachella fusca		 Megophryidae Two New Species of the Genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Kalimantan, Indonesia [Koshiro Eto, Masafumi Matsui, Amir Hamidy, Misbahul Munir and Djoko Iskandar]
2018-09-19 Adelophryne michelin Eleutherodactylidae Diversity of miniaturized frogs of the genus Adelophryne (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae): A new species from the Atlantic Forest of northeast Brazil (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from Eastern Cuba [Ricardo Lourenço-de-Moraes, Iuri R. Dias, Caio V. Mira-Mendes, Renan M. de Oliveira, Adriane Barth, Danilo S. Ruas, Miguel Vences, Mirco Solé, Rogério P. Bastos]
2018-08-31 Boana caiapo Hylidae A New Species of the Boana albopunctata Group (Anura: Hylidae) from the Cerrado of Brazil [Paulo D. P. Pinheiro , Carlos E. D. Cintra , Paula H. Valdujo , Hélder L. R. Silva , Itamar A. Martins , Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr. and Paulo C. A. Garcia]
2018-08-31 Leptobrachium tenasserimense Megophryidae A new species of Leptobrachium (Anura, Megophryidae) from western Thailand [Parinya Pawangkhanant, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tang Van Duong, Mali Naiduangchan, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom ]
2018-09-03 Proceratophrys ararype Odontophrynidae A New Species of Proceratophrys (Amphibia: Anura: Odontophrynidae) from the Araripe Plateau, Ceará State, Northeastern Brazil [Mangia S, Koroiva R, Sales Nunes PM, Roberto IJ, Avila RW, Sant'Anna AC, Santana DJ, Garda AA]
2018-09-26 Scinax tsachila Hylidae Advertisement calls and DNA sequences reveal a new species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) on the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador [Santiago R. Ron, William E. Duellman, Marcel A. Caminer, Diana Pazmiño]
2018-09-25 Microhyla beilunensis Microhylidae A New Species of Genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Zhejiang Province, China [Meihua ZHANG; Liang FEI; Changyuan YE; Yufan WANG; Bin Wang and Jianping JIANG1
2018-10-01 Mantidactylus schulzi Mantellidae A new riparian Mantidactylus (Brygoomantis) frog from the Tsaratanana and Manongarivo Massifs in northern Madagascar [MIGUEL VENCES, ANDREA HILDENBRAND, KATHARINA M. WARMUTH, FRANCO ANDREONE, FRANK GLAW]
2018-10-02 Hyla perrini Hylidae Genomic Evidence for Cryptic Speciation in Tree Frogs From the Apennine Peninsula, With Description of Hyla perrini sp. nov [Christophe Dufresnes, Glib Mazepa, Nicolas Rodrigues, Alan Brelsford, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Roberto Sermier, Guillaume Lavanchy, Caroline Betto-Colliard, Olivier Blaser, Amaël Borzée, Elisa Cavoto, Guillaume Fabre, Karim Ghali, Christine Grossen, Agnes Horn, Julien Leuenberger, Barret C. Phillips, Paul A. Saunders, Romain Savary, Tiziano Maddalena, Matthias Stöck, Sylvain Dubey, Daniele Canestrelli and Daniel L. Jeffries]
2018-10-03 Brachycephalus mirissimus Brachycephalidae A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from southern Brazil. [Marcio R. Pie, Luiz F. Ribeiro, André E. Confetti, Mário J. Nadaline, Marcos R. Bornschein]
2018-10-04 Odorrana kweichowensis Ranidae A new species of the odorous frog genus Odorrana (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from southwestern China [Shize Li, Ning Xu, Jingcai Lv, Jianping Jiang, Gang Wei, Bin Wang]
2018-10-04 Micryletta nigromaculata Microhylidae A New Limestone-dwelling Species of Micryletta (Anura: Microhylidae) from northern Vietnam [Poyarkov, Nguyen, Duong, Gorin & Yang, 2018]
2018-10-18 Tylototriton ngarsuensis Salamandridae A new species of Crocodile Newt Tylototriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JUNIOR WOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH, MYINT KYAW THURA, ROBERT E. ESPINOZA, MARTA S. GRISMER, MATTHEW L. MURDOCH, AUNG LIN]
2018-10-31 Limnonectes kiziriani Dicroglossidae A new species of Limnonectes (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Vietnam [CUONG THE PHAM, MINH DUC LE, HANH THI NGO, THOMAS ZIEGLER, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN]
2018-11-01 Megophrys fansipanensis
Megophrys hoanglienensis		 Megophryidae Two new and potentially highly threatened Megophrys Horned frogs (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from Indochina’s highest mountains [BENJAMIN TAPLEY, TIMOTHY CUTAJAR, STEPHEN MAHONY, CHUNG THANH NGUYEN, VINH QUANG DAU, ANH MAI LUONG, DZUNG TRUNG LE, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, CHRISTOPHER PORTWAY, HAO VAN LUONG, JODI J. L. ROWLEY]
2018-11-19 Megophrys flavipunctata
Megophrys himalayana
Megophrys oreocrypta
Megophrys periosa 		Megophryidae Cryptic diversity within the Megophrys major species group (Amphibia: Megophryidae) of the Asian Horned Frogs: Phylogenetic perspectives and a taxonomic revision of South Asian taxa, with descriptions of four new species [STEPHEN MAHONY, RACHUNLIU G. KAMEI, EMMA C. TEELING, S. D. BIJU]
2018-11-27 Scinax strussmannae Hylidae New Species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) with Red-Striped Eyes from Brazilian Amazonia [Micah Stinger, Jiri Moravec, Igor Luis Kaefer, Rafael Fraga and Albertina Pimentel Lima]
2018-11-29 Pseudopaludicola matuta Leptodactylidae A new species of Pseudopaludicola (Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leiuperinae) from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. [Felipe Silva de Andrade, Isabelle Aquemi Haga, Mariana Lúcio Lyra, Thiago Ribeiro de Carvalho, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta, Luís Felipe Toledo]
2018-12-05 Brasilotyphlus dubium Siphonopidae A new species of Brasilotyphlus (Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae) and a contribution to the knowledge of the relationship between Microcaecilia and Brasilotyphlus [LARISSA LIMA CORREIA, PEDRO M. SALES NUNES, TONY GAMBLE, ADRIANO OLIVEIRA MACIEL, SERGIO MARQUES-SOUZA, ANTOINE FOUQUET, MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES, TAMÍ MOTT]
2018-12-05 Siren reticulata Sirenidae Description of an extant salamander from the Gulf Coastal Plain of North America: The Reticulated Siren, Siren reticulata [Sean P. Graham, Richard Kline, David A. Steen, Crystal Kelehear]
2018-12-06 Pristimantis gralarias Craugastoridae A new (singleton) rainfrog of the Pristimantis myersi Group (Amphibia: Craugastoridae) from the northern Andes of Ecuador [JUAN M. GUAYASAMIN, ALEJANDRO ARTEAGA, CARL R. HUTTER]
2018-12-18 Phyzelaphryne nimio Eleutherodactylidae A new species of Phyzelaphryne Heyer, 1977 (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from the Japurá River basin, with a discussion of the diversity and distribution of the genus [PEDRO IVO SIMÕES, JOÃO CARLOS LOPES COSTA, FERNANDO J. M. ROJAS-RUNJAIC, GIUSSEPE GAGLIARDI-URRUTIA, MARCELO JOSÉ STURARO, PEDRO L. V. PELOSO, SANTIAGO CASTROVIEJO-FISHER]
2018-12-18 Microhyla darreli Microhylidae Systematic revision of Microhyla (Microhylidae) frogs of South Asia: a molecular, morphological, and acoustic assessment [Sonali Garg, Robin Suyesh, Abhijit Das, Jianping Jiang, Nayana Wijayathilaka, A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe, Farits Alhadi, Kumar K. Vineeth, N. A. Aravind, Gayani Senevirathne, Madhava Meegaskumbura & S. D. Biju]
2018-12-19 Hyloscirtus hillisi Hylidae A new treefrog from Cordillera del Cóndor with comments on the biogeographic affinity between Cordillera del Cóndor and the Guianan Tepuis (Anura, Hylidae, Hyloscirtus) [Santiago R. Ron, Marcel A. Caminer, Andrea Varela-Jaramillo, Diego Almeida-Reinoso]
2018-12-31 Chiropterotriton aureus,
Chiropterotriton nubilus		 Plethodontidae Two new species of Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from central Veracruz, Mexico [Mirna G. García-Castillo, Ángel F. Soto-Pozos, J. Luis Aguilar-López, Eduardo Pineda, and Gabriela Parra-Olea]