Neu beschriebene Amphibien

Informationen über neu beschriebene Amphibien und Hinweise auf taxonomische Veränderungen.

2019

Datum	Art	Familie	Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum	Art	Familie	Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
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]

2017

Datum	Art	Familie	Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum	Art	Familie	Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
2017-12-26	Nyctibatrachus mewasinghi	Nyctibatrachidae	A New Species of Night Frog (Amphibia: Nyctibatrachidae) from Western Ghats of Kerala, India [Keerthi Krutha, Neelesh Dahanukar, Sanjay Molur]
2017-12-25	Rhacophorus hoabinhensis	Rhacophoridae	A New Species of Rhacophorus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam [Tao Thien NGUYEN, Cuong The PHAM, Truong Quang NGUYEN, Hoa Thi NINH and Thomas ZIEGLER]
2017-12-25	Rhacophorus lishuiensis	Rhacophoridae	A New Treefrog Species of the Genus Rhacophorus Found in Zhejiang, China(Anura: Rhacophoridae) [LIU Bao-Quan, WANG Yu-Fan, JIANG Ke, CHEN Hong-Man, ZHOU Jia-Jun, XU Ji-Nan, WU Cheng-Hao, Zhejiang]
2017-12-21	Rana dabieshanensis	Ranidae	A new species of Rana from the Dabie Mountains in eastern China (Anura, Ranidae) [Chencheng Wang, Lifu Qian, Chenling Zhang, Weibo Guo, Tao Pan, Jun Wu, Hui Wang, Baowei Zhang]
2017-12-20	Bryophryne mancoinca	Craugastoridae	A new species of Bryophryne (Anura:Strabomantidae) from the Cordillera de Vilcabamba, southeastern Peruvian Andes [Jorge Brito M., Reed Ojala-Barbour, Diego Batallas R., and Ana Almendáriz C.]
2017-12-20	Elachistocleis corumbaensis	Microhylidae	A new species of Elachistocleis (Anura: Microhylidae) from the Brazilian Pantanal [Alessandher Piva, Ulisses Caramaschi, Nelson Rufino de Albuquerque]
2017-12-13	Chiropterotriton chico	Plethodontidae	A new terrestrial species of Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from central Mexico [MIRNA G. GARCÍA-CASTILLO, SEAN M. ROVITO, DAVID B. WAKE, GABRIELA PARRA-OLEA]
2017-12-12	Hynobius ikioi	Hynobiidae	Taxonomic Relationships of Hynobius stejnegeri and H. yatsui, with Description of the Amber-Colored Salamander from Kyushu, Japan (Amphibia: Caudata) [Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa, and Atsushi Tominaga]
2017-12-12	Microkayla huayna	Craugastoridae	A new species of Microkayla (Anura: Craugastoridae: Holoadeninae) from Department La Paz, Bolivia [IGNACIO DE LA RIVA, CLAUDIA CORTEZ, PATRICIA A. BURROWES]
2017-11-28	Stumpffia - 26 neue Arten	Microhylidae	Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar [Andolalao Rakotoarison, Mark D. Scherz, Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Franco Andreone, Michael Franzen, Julian Glos, Oliver Hawlitschek, Teppei Jono, Akira Mori, Serge H. Ndriantsoa , Noromalala Rasoamam-Pionona Raminosoa, Jana C. Riemann, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Gonçalo M. Rosa, David R. Vieites, Angelica Crottini, Miguel Vences]
2017-11-24	Pristimantis muranunka	Craugastoridae	Nueva especie de rana bromelícola del género Pristimantis (Amphibia: Craugastoridae), meseta de la Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador [Jorge Brito M, Ana Almendariz C., Diego Batallas R. Santiago R. Ron]
2017-11-24	Pristimantis yantzaza	Craugastoridae	A new species of direct-developing frog of the genus Pristimantis (Anura: Terrarana: Craugastoridae) from Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador, with comments on threats to the anuran fauna of the region [JORGE H. VALENCIA, MANUEL R. DUEÑAS, PAUL SZÉKELY, DIEGO BATALLAS, FRANCISCO PULLUQUITÍN, SANTIAGO R. RON]
2017-11-16	Phrynobatrachus discogularis	Phrynobatrachidae	A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the Eastern Arc Mountians of Tanzania [MARTIN PICKERSGILL, BREDA M. ZIMKUS, LYNN R. G. RAW]
2017-11-15	Gephyromantis angano	Mantellidae	A new frog species of the subgenus Asperomantis (Anura, Mantellidae, Gephyromantis) from the Bealanana District of northern Madagascar [Mark D. Scherz, Miguel Vences, James Borrell, Lawrence Ball, Denise Herizo Nomenjanahary, Duncan Parker, Marius Rakotondratsima, Elidiot Razafimandimby, Thomas Starnes, Jeanneney Rabearivony, Frank Glaw]
2017-11-14	Gephyromantis tohatra	Mantellidae	Yet another small brown frog from high altitude on the Marojejy Massif, northeastern Madagascar (Anura: Mantellidae) [MARK D. SCHERZ, JARY H. RAZAFINDRAIBE, ANDOLALAO RAKOTOARISON, NADI M. DIXIT, MOLLY C. BLETZ, FRANK GLAW, MIGUEL VENCES]
2017-11-13	Nidirana nankunensis	Ranidae	Resurrection of genus Nidirana (Anura: Ranidae) and synonymizing N. caldwelli with N. adenopleura, with description of a new species from China [Zhi-Tong Lyu, Zhao-Chi Zeng, Jian Wang, Chao-Yu Lin, Zu-Yao Liu, Ying-Yong Wang∗]
2017-11-09	Fejervarya muangkanensis	Dicroglossidae	A new species of rain-pool frog (Dicroglossidae: Fejervarya) from western Thailand [Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Zhi-Yong Yuan, Ke Jiang, Fang Yan, Wei Gao, Jing Che]
2017-11-08	Megophrys rubrimera	Megophryidae	The Vietnamese population of Megophrys kuatunensis (Amphibia: Megophryidae) represents a new species of Asian horned frog from Vietnam and southern China [BENJAMIN TAPLEY, TIMOTHY CUTAJAR, STEPHEN MAHONY, CHUNG THANH NGUYEN, VINH QUANG DAU, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, HAO VAN LUONG, JODI J. L. ROWLEY]
2017-11-02	Phrynopus inti	Craugastoridae	A new species of Phrynopus (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae) from upper montane forests and high Andean grasslands of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru [Edgar Lehr, Rudolf von May, Jiri Moravec, Juan Carlos Cusi]
2017-10-31	Ameerega munduruku	Dendrobatidae	A new species of poison frog, genus Ameerega (Anura: Dendrobatidae), from the southern Amazonian rain forest [Matheus Oliveira Neves, Leandro Alves da Silva, Paulo Sérgio Akieda, Rodrigo Cabrera, Ricardo Koroiva & Diego José Santana]
2017-10-20	Phyllodytes amadoi	Hylidae	A new species of Phyllodytes (Anura: Hylidae) from the Atlantic Rainforest of southern Bahia, Brazil [JUDIT VÖRÖS, IURI RIBEIRO DIAS, MIRCO SOLÉ]
2017-10-20	Oreophryne phoebe	Microhylidae	A New Insular Species of Oreophryne (Anura, Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea [Fred Kraus]
2017-10-12	Sanguirana acai	Ranidae	Taxonomic Reappraisal of the Northeast Mindanao Stream Frog, Sanguirana albotuberculata (Inger 1954), Validation of Rana mearnsi, Stejneger 1905, and Description of a New Species from the Central Philippines [Rafe M. Brown, Allyson Prue, Chan Kin Onn, Maren Gaulke, Marites B. Sanguila, and Cameron D. Siler]
2017-10-06	Odontophrynus juquinha	Odontophrynidae	A new diploid species belonging to the Odontophrynus americanus species group (Anura: Odontophrynidae) from the Espinhaço range, Brazil [PEDRO CARVALHO ROCHA, LETÍCIA MOREIRA FERRAZ DE SENA, TIAGO LEITE PEZZUTI, FELIPE SÁ FORTES LEITE, MARTA SVARTMAN, SERGIO DANIEL ROSSET, DIEGO BALDO, PAULO CHRISTIANO DE ANCHIETTA GARCIA]
2017-10-06	Hypogeophis pti	Indotyphlidae	A new species of small and highly abbreviated caecilian (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the Seychelles island of Praslin, and a recharacterization of Hypogeophis brevis Boulenger, 1911 [SIMON T. MADDOCK, MARK WILKINSON, RONALD A. NUSSBAUM, DAVID J. GOWER]
2017-10-04	Scinax onca	Hylidae	A new species of Scinax from the Purus-Madeira interfluve, Brazilian Amazonia (Anura, Hylidae) [Miquéias Ferrão, Jiří Moravec, Rafael de Fraga, Alexandre Pinheiro de Almeida, Igor Luis Kaefer, Albertina Pimentel Lima]
2017-10-04	Charadrahyla esperancensis	Hylidae	Discovery of another new species of Charadrahyla (Anura, Hylidae) from the cloud forest of northern Oaxaca, México [LUIS CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ, CYNTHIA GRISELL RAMÍREZ-GONZÁLEZ, EDNA GONZÁLEZ-BERNAL]
2017-09-27	Pithecopus araguaius	Phyllomedusidae	Unrevealing the leaf frogs Cerrado diversity: A new species of Pithecopus (Anura, Arboranae, Phyllomedusidae) from the Mato Grosso state, Brazil [Isabelle Aquemi Haga, Felipe Silva de Andrade, Daniel Pacheco Bruschi, Shirlei Maria Recco-Pimentel, Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta]
2017-09-25	Tylototriton anhuiensis	Salamandridae	A New Species of the Genus Tylototriton (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae) from the Southern Dabie Mountains in Anhui Province [Lifu QIAN; Xiaonan SUN; Jiaqi LI; Weibo GUO; Tao PAN; Xing KANG; Hui WANG; Jianping JIANG; Jun WU and Baowei ZHANG]
2017-09-20	Neue Gattung Leucostethus	Dendrobatidae	Phylogenetic Systematics of Dart-Poison Frogs and Their Relatives Revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea) [Taran Grant, Marco Rada, Marvin Anganoy-Criollo, Abel Batista, Pedro Henrique Dias, Adriana Moriguchi Jeckel, Denis Jacob Machado, José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid]
2017-09-20	Ectopoglossus absconditus Ectopoglossus saxatilis	Dendrobatidae	Phylogenetic Systematics of Dart-Poison Frogs and Their Relatives Revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea) [Taran Grant, Marco Rada, Marvin Anganoy-Criollo, Abel Batista, Pedro Henrique Dias, Adriana Moriguchi Jeckel, Denis Jacob Machado, José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid]
2017-09-15	Abavorana nazgul	Ranidae	A new species of frog of the genus Abavorana Oliver, Prendini, Kraus & Raxworthy 2015 (Anura: Ranidae) from Gunung Jerai, Kedah, northwestern Peninsular Malaysia [EVAN S.H. QUAH, SHAHRULM.S. ANUAR, L.L. GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, SITI M.N. AZIZAH, MOHD ABDUL MUIN]
2017-09-08	Pristimantis nimbus	Craugastoridae	A new terrestrial frog (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the montane cloud forests of the southeastern Ecuadorian Andes [VERONICA L. URGILES, VALENTINA POSSE, BRUNO A. TIMBE, PEDRO X. ASTUDILLO, JUAN C. SÁNCHEZ-NIVICELA]
2017-09-04	Ptychohyla zoque	Hylidae	A new species of treefrog of the genus Ptychohyla (Anura: Hylidae) from Southern Mexico [LUIS CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ, J. LUIS AGUILAR-LÓPEZ, RICARDO LURÍA-MANZANO, EDUARDO PINEDA, ITZUE W. CAVIEDES-SOLÍS]
2017-09-04	Limnonectes kong	Dicroglossidae	A new wide-headed Fanged Frog of the Limnonectes kuhlii group (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from western Borneo with a redescription of Rana conspicillata Günther, 1872 [Dehling, J. M., & Dehling, D. M.]
2017-09-04	Spinomantis beckei	Mantellidae	A new species of smooth-skinned Spinomantis frog (Anura: Mantellidae) from south-eastern Madagascar [MIGUEL VENCES, JÖRN KÖHLER, FRANK GLAW]
2017-08-30	Nymphargus caucanus	Centrolenidae	A Taxonomic Review of Tan-Brown Glassfrogs (Anura: Centrolenidae), with the Description of a New Species from Southwestern Colombia [Marco Rada, Jhon Jairo Ospina-Sarria and Juan M. Guayasamin]
2017-08-30	Sachatamia electrops	Centrolenidae	A Remarkable New White-Eyed Glassfrog Species of Sachatamia from Colombia (Anura: Centrolenidae), with Comments on the Systematics of the Genus [Marco Rada, Adriana M. Jeckel, Valentina Z. Caorsi, Lucas S. Barrientos, Mauricio Rivera-Correa and Taran Grant]
2017-08-29	Kurixalus lenquanensis	Rhacophoridae	A new species of the genus Kurixalus from Yunnan, China (Anura, Rhacophoridae) [Guohua Yu, Jishan Wang, Mian Hou, Dingqi Rao, Junxing Yang]
2017-08-29	Rana luanchuanensis	Ranidae	A new species of the genus Rana from Henan, central China (Anura, Ranidae) [Haipeng Zhao, Junxiao Yang, Chunping Wang, Pipeng Li, Robert W. Murphy, Jing Che, Zhiyong Yuan]
2017-08-25	Kalophrynus kiewi	Microhylidae	A New Kalophrynus (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from Peninsular Malaysia [Masafumi MATSUI, Koshiro ETO, Daicus M. BELABUT, Kanto NISHIKAWA]
2017-08-25	Oreophryne brunnea	Microhylidae	A New Species of Oreophryne (Anura: Microhylidae) from the Mountains of Southeastern Papua New Guinea [Fred Kraus]
2017-08-25	Hynobius mikawaensis	Hynobiidae	A New Species of Lentic Breeding Salamander (Amphibia, Caudata) from Central Japan [Masafumi Matsui, Yasuchika Misawa, Kanto Nishikawa and Tomohiko Shimada]
2017-08-15	Phrynopus lapidoides Phrynopus unchog	Craugastoridae	Two new species of Andes Frogs (Craugastoridae: Phrynopus) from the Cordillera de Carpish in central Peru [Edgar Lehr & Daniel Rodríguez]
2017-08-04	Leptolalax maoershanensis	Megophryidae	A new species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from Guangxi, China [ZHIYONG YUAN, RUIDA SUN, JINMIN CHEN, JODI J. L. ROWLEY, ZHENGJUN WU, SHAOBING HOU, JING CHE]
2017-08-02	Pristimantis latro	Craugastoridae	A new species of Pristimantis from eastern Brazilian Amazonia (Anura, Craugastoridae) [Elciomar Araújo De Oliveira, Luis Reginaldo Rodrigues, Igor Luis Kaefer, Karll Cavalcante Pinto, Emil José Hernández-Ruz]
2017-08-02	Breviceps carruthersi Breviceps passmorei	Brevicipitidae	Uncovering a hidden diversity: two new species of Breviceps (Anura: Brevicipitidae) from northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa [LESLIE R. MINTER, EDWARD C. NETHERLANDS, LOUIS H. DU PREEZ]
2017-08-01	Pelophryne penrissenensis	Bufonidae	A New Species of Pelophryne from Western Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo (Anura, Bufonidae) [Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa, Koshiro Eto and Mohamad Yazid Bin Hossman]
2017-08-01	Philautus amabilis Philautus polymorphus Philautus thamyridion Philautus ventrimaculatus	Rhacophoridae	A Taxonomic Revision of the Philautus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) of Sumatra with the Description of Four New Species [Elijah Wostl, Awal Riyanto, Amir Hamidy, Nia Kurniawan, Eric N. Smith, and Michael B. Harvey]
2017-07-31	Nasikabatrachus bhupathi	Nasikabatrachidae	A new species of the genus Nasikabatrachus (Anura, Nasikabatrachidae) from the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats, India [S. Jegath Janini, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Elizabeth Prendini, Sushil Kumar Dutta & Ramesh K. Aggarwal]
2017-07-28	Bryophryne quellokunka Bryophryne tocra Bryophryne wilakunka	Craugastoridae	Underestimated anuran radiations in the high Andes: five new species and a new genus of Holoadeninae, and their phylogenetic relationships (Anura: Craugastoridae). [GNACIO DE LA RIVA1, JUAN C. CHAPARRO, SANTIAGO CASTROVIEJO-FISHER and JOSÉ M. PADIAL]
2017-07-28	neue Gattung Microkayla	Craugastoridae	Underestimated anuran radiations in the high Andes: five new species and a new genus of Holoadeninae, and their phylogenetic relationships (Anura: Craugastoridae). [GNACIO DE LA RIVA1, JUAN C. CHAPARRO, SANTIAGO CASTROVIEJO-FISHER and JOSÉ M. PADIAL]
2017-07-28	Theloderma pyaukkya	Rhacophoridae	A New Cryptic Species of the Theloderma asperum Complex (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Myanmar [Jennifer A. Dever]
2017-07-28	Pristimantis bounides Pristimantis humboldti Pristimantis puipui	Craugastoridae	Three new species of Pristimantis (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae) from upper montane forests and high Andean grasslands of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru [EDGAR LEHR, RUDOLF VON MAY, JIŘÍ MORAVEC, JUAN CARLOS CUSI]
2017-07-27	Brachycephalus coloratus Brachycephalus curupira	Brachycephalidae	Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil [Luiz F. Ribeiro, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Marcio R. Pie, Marcos R. Bornschein]
2017-07-17	Bolitoglossa yariguiensis	Plethodontidae	A new species of Salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae, Bolitoglossa) from Serranía de los Yariguíes, Colombia [FABIO LEONARDO MEZA-JOYA, CARLOS HERNÁNDEZ-JAIMES, ELIANA RAMOS-PALLARES]
2017-07-10	Andinobates victimatus	Dendrobatidae	A new species of Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Urabá region of Colombia [ROBERTO MÁRQUEZ, DANIEL MEJÍA-VARGAS, PABLO PALACIOS-RODRÍGUEZ, VALERIA RAMÍREZ-CASTAÑEDA, ADOLFO AMÉZQUITA]
2017-07-28	Bryophryne phuyuhampatu	Craugastoridae	Bryophryne phuyuhampatu sp. n., a new species of Cusco Andes frog from the cloud forest of the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae) [Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito, M. Isabel Diaz, Alexander Shepack]
2017-07-06	Anaxyrus williamsi	Bufonidae	A diamond in the rough desert shrublands of the Great Basin in the Western United States: A new cryptic toad species (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Bufo (Anaxyrus)) discovered in Northern Nevada [MICHELLE R. GORDON, ERIC T. SIMANDLE, C. RICHARD TRACY]
2017-07-04	Boulengerula spawlsi	Herpelidae	A new species of Boulengerula Tornier, 1896 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Herpelidae) from Kenya and the “rediscovery” of Boulengerula denhardti (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae) [MARK WILKINSON, PATRICK K. MALONZA, SIMON P. LOADER]
2017-06-30	Plectrohyla calvata	Hylidae	Specific status of the Montaña de Celaque Honduran frogs previously referred to as Plectrohyla guatemalensis (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae) [James R. McCranie]
2017-06-23	Arthroleptella atermina Arthroleptella draconella Arthroleptella kogelbergensis	Pyxicephalidae	Three new species of Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926 (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) from the Cape Fold Mountains, South Africa [Andrew Turner, Alan Channing]
2017-06-20	Isthmura corrugata	Plethodontidae	A new species of Isthmura (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from the montane cloud forest of central Veracruz, Mexico [ADRIANA SANDOVAL-COMTE, EDUARDO PINEDA, SEAN M. ROVITO, RICARDO LURÍA-MANZANO]
2017-06-24	Sphaerotheca pashchima	Dicroglossidae	Sphaerotheca pashchima, a new species of burrowing frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from western India [Anand Padhye, Neelesh Dahanukar, Shauri Sulakhe, Nikhil Dandekar, Sunil Limaye, Kirti Jamdade]
2017-06-20	Fejervarya cepfi Fejervarya kadar Fejervarya manoharani Fejervarya neilcoxi	Dicroglossidae	Description of four new species of Burrowing Frogs in the Fejervarya rufescens complex (Dicroglossidae) with notes on morphological affinities of Fejervarya species in the Western Ghats [SONALI GARG, S.D. BIJU]
2017-06-15	Hylodes caete	Hylodidae	A New Species of Hylodes (Anura, Hylodidae) from Serra do Mar, Southeastern Brazil: The Fourth with Nuptial Thumb Tubercles [Leo R. Malagoli, Fábio P. de Sá, Clarissa Canedo, and Célio F. B. Haddad]
2017-06-15	Sphaenorhynchus cammaeus	Hylidae	A New Species of Sphaenorhynchus (Anura: Hylidae) from Northeastern Brazil [Igor Joventino Roberto, Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira, Sergio Potsch de Carvalho-e-Silva, and Robson Waldemar Ávila]
2017-06-06	Phrynopus anancites Phrynopus capitalis Phrynopus dumicola Phrynopus personatus	Craugastoridae	Four new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs of the genus Phrynopus (Anura: Terrarana: Craugastoridae) from Río Abiseo National Park, Peru [LILY O. RODRIGUEZ, ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI]
2017-06-06	Rhombophryne diadema Rhombophryne regalis	Microhylidae	A review of the taxonomy and osteology of the Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa species group (Anura: Microhylidae) from Madagascar, with comments on the value of volume rendering of micro-CT data to taxonomists [MARK D. SCHERZ, OLIVER HAWLITSCHEK, FRANCO ANDREONE, ANDOLALAO RAKOTOARISON, MIGUEL VENCES, FRANK GLAW]
2017-06-02	Pristimantis boucephalus	Craugastoridae	A new minute species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Craugastoridae) with a large head from the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park in central Peru, with comments on the phylogenetic diversity of Pristimantis occurring in the Cordillera Yanachaga [Edgar Lehr, Jiří Moravec, Juan Carlos Cusi, Václav Gvoždík]
2017-06-01	Leptolalax puhoatensis	Megophryidae	A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from Vietnam [JODI J. L. ROWLEY, VINH Q. DAU, TRUNG T. CAO]
2017-05-28	Amolops xinduqiao	Ranidae	A new species of the genus Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from high-altitude Sichuan, southwestern China, with a discussion on the taxonomic status of Amolops kangtingensis [Liang Fei, Chang-Yuan Ye, Yu-Fan Wang, and Ke Jiang]
2017-05-24	Limnonectes quangninhensis	Dicroglossidae	CUONG THE PHAM, MINH DUC LE, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, THOMAS ZIEGLER, ZHENG JUN WU, TRUONG QUANG NGUYENHebbar PRITI, Chandrakanth Rukkappa NAIK, Kadaba Shamanna SESHADRI, Ramit SINGAL, Madhava Kulkarni VIDISHA, Gudasalmani RAVIKANTH and Kotambylu Vasudeva GURURAJA]
2017-05-22	Phyllomedusa chaparroi	Phyllomedusidae	A new morphologically cryptic species of Phyllomedusa (Anura: Phyllomedusidae) from Amazonian forests of northern Peru revealed by DNA sequences [SANTIAGO CASTROVIEJO-FISHER, JÖRN KÖHLER, IGNACIO DE LA RIVA, JOSÉ M. PADIAL]
2017-05-20	Eurycea hillisi Eurycea sphagnicola	Plethodontidae	Revision of the Eurycea quadridigitata (Holbrook 1842) Complex of Dwarf Salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Hemidactyliinae) with a Description of Two New Species [Kenneth P. Wray, D. Bruce Means, and Scott J. Steppan]
2017-05-12	Rhinella lilyrodriguezae	Bufonidae	A new species of semiarboreal toad of the Rhinella festae group (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Cordillera Azul National Park, Peru [expand article infoJuan C. Cusi, Jiří Moravec, Edgar Lehr, Václav Gvoždík]
2017-05-12	Hyalinobatrachium yaku	Centrolenidae	A marvelous new glassfrog (Centrolenidae, Hyalinobatrachium) from Amazonian Ecuador [Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Ross J. Maynard, Ryan L. Lynch, Jaime Culebras, Paul S. Hamilton]
2017-05-10	Desmognathus valentinei	Plethodontidae	A new species of dusky salamander (Amphibia: Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) from the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States and a redescription of D. auriculatus [D. BRUCE MEANS, JENNIFER Y. LAMB, JOSEPH BERNARDO]
2017-05-05	Choerophryne bisyllaba Choerophryne crucifer Choerophryne multisyllaba	Microhylidae	Three new species of the microhylid frog genus Choerophryne (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea [Rainer Günther, Stephen Richards]
2017-05-01	Brachycephalus darkside	Brachycephalidae	The dark side of pumpkin toadlet: a new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Serra do Brigadeiro, southeastern Brazil [CARLA SILVA GUIMARÃES, SOFIA LUZ, PEDRO CARVALHO ROCHA, RENATO NEVES FEIO]
2017-04-30	Hyalinobatrachium muiraquitan	Centrolenidae	New Species of Glassfrog, Genus Hyalinobatrachium (Anura: Centrolenidae), for the Brazilian Amazon Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA and Morphology [Elciomar Araújo de Oliveira, Emil José Hernández-Ruz]
2017-04-13	Microhyla taraiensis	Microhylidae	A new species of the genus Microhyla (Anura: Microhylidae) from Eastern Nepal [JANAK RAJ KHATIWADA, GUO CHENG SHU, SHOU HONG WANG, ARJUN THAPA, BIN WANG, JIANPING JIANG]
2017-04-04	Gracixalus jinggangensis	Rhacophoridae	A new species of the genus Gracixalus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Mount Jinggang, southeastern China [ZHAO-CHI ZENG, JIAN ZHAO, CHUN-QUAN CHEN, GUO-LING CHEN, ZHONG ZHANG, YING-YONG WANG]
2017-03-25	Rhacophorus zhoukaiyae	Rhacophoridae	A New Species of the Genus Rhacophorus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Dabie Mountains in East China [Tao PAN, Yanan ZHANG, Hui WANG, Jun WU, Xing KANG, Lifu QIAN, Kai LI, Yu ZHANG, Jinyun CHEN, Dingqi RAO, Jianping JIANG and Baowei ZHANG]
2017-03-22	Pristimantis ecuadorensis	Craugastoridae	Diversification of the rainfrog Pristimantis ornatissimus in the lowlands and Andean foothills of Ecuador [Juan M. Guayasamin, Carl R. Hutter, Elicio E. Tapia, Jaime Culebras, Nicolás Peñafiel, R. Alexander Pyron, Carlos Morochz, W. Chris Funk, Alejandro Arteaga]
2017-03-17	Gracixalus sapaensis	Rhacophoridae	Distinction of Gracixalus carinensis from Vietnam and Myanmar, with description of a new species [Masafumi Matsui, Annemarie Ohler, Koshiro Eto, Nguyen Thien Tao]
2017-03-16	Pristimantis albujai Pristimantis churuwiai Pristimantis sambalan Pristimantis saturtinoi	Craugastoridae	Ranas terrestres Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) de los bosques montanos del río Upano, Ecuador: Lista anotada, patrones de diversidad y descripción de cuatro especies nuevas [Jorge Brito, Diego Batallas, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz]
2017-03-16	Leptolalax petrops	Megophryidae	A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from northern Vietnam [JODI J. L. ROWLEY, VINH Q. DAU, HUY D. HOANG, DUONG T. T. LE, TIMOTHY P. CUTAJAR, TAO T. NGUYEN]
2017-03-14	Pelodytes atlanticus Pelodytes hespericus	Pelodytidae	Integration of molecular, bioacoustical and morphological data reveals two new cryptic species of Pelodytes (Anura, Pelodytidae) from the Iberian Peninsula [JESÚS DÍAZ-RODRÍGUEZ, MARCELO GEHARA, RAFAEL MÁRQUEZ, MIGUEL VENCES, HELENA GONÇALVES, FERNANDO SEQUEIRA, IÑIGO MARTÍNEZ-SOLANO, MIGUEL TEJEDO]
2017-03-10	Pristimantis leopardus	Craugastoridae	A new species of terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Craugastoridae, Pristimantis) from high elevations of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru [Edgar Lehr, Rudolf von May]
2017-03-09	Sigalegalephrynus minangkabauensis Sigalegalephrynus mandailinguensis	Bufonidae	A New Genus and Two New Species of Arboreal Toads from the Highlands of Sumatra with a Phylogeny of Sundaland Toad Genera [UTPAL SMART ,GOUTAM C. SARKER ,UMILAELA ARIFIN ,MICHAEL B. HARVEY ,IRVAN SIDIK ,AMIR HAMIDY ,NIA KURNIAWAN, AND ERIC N. SHMITH]
2017-03-08	Dendropsophus nekronastes	Hylidae	The 100th: An appealing new species of Dendropsophus (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) from northeastern Brazil [Iuri Ribeiro Dias, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, Antônio Jorge Suzart Argôlo, Victor Goyannes Dill Orrico]
2017-03-08	Pristimantis attenboroughi	Craugastoridae	Phylogenetic analysis of the Neotropical Pristimantis leptolophus species group (Anura: Craugastoridae): molecular approach and description of a new polymorphic species [MAURICIO RIVERA-CORREA, CARLOS JIMÉNEZ-RIVILLAS, JUAN M. DAZA]
2017-03-04	Gattung Boana ersetzt Hypsiboas	Hylidae	The nomenclatural status of Hysaplesia, Hylaplesia, Dendrobates and related nomina (Amphibia, Anura), with general comments on zoological nomenclature and its governance, as well as on taxonomic databases and websites [ALAIN DUBOIS]
2017-03-02	Phyllodytes megatympanum	Hylidae	A new species of Phyllodytes Wagler, 1830 (Anura, Hylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil [EUVALDO MARCIANO-JR, AMANDA SANTIAGO F. LANTYER-SILVA, MIRCO SOLÉ]
2017-03-01	Dendropsophus arndti Dendropsophus vraemi	Hylidae	Systematics of the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species complex (Anura: Hylidae): Cryptic diversity and the description of two new species [Marcel A. Caminer, Borja Milá, Martin Jansen, Antoine Fouquet, Pablo J. Venegas, Germán Chávez, Stephen C. Lougheed, Santiago R. Ron]
2017-02-24	Rhombophryne nilevina	Microhylidae	Diamond in the rough: a new species of fossorial diamond frog (Rhombophryne) from Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar [Mexpand article infoShea M. Lambert, Carl R. Hutter, Mark D. Scherz]
2017-02-21	Chiasmocleis altomontana Chiasmocleis migueli Chiasmocleis veracruz	Microhylidae	Molecular and morphological data reveal three new cryptic species of Chiasmocleis (Mehely 1904) (Anura, Microhylidae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest, Brazil [Mauricio C. Forlani, João F.R. Tonini, Carlos A.G. Cruz, Hussam Zaher, Rafael O. de Sá]
2017-02-21	Nyctibatrachus athirappillyensis Nyctibatrachus manalari Nyctibatrachus pulivijayani Nyctibatrachus radcliffei Nyctibatrachus robinmoorei Nyctibatrachus sabarimalai Nyctibatrachus webilla	Nyctibatrachidae	Seven new species of Night Frogs (Anura, Nyctibatrachidae) from the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot of India, with remarkably high diversity of diminutive forms [Sonali Garg, Robin Suyesh, Sandeep Sukesan, SD Biju]
2017-02-16	Capensibufo deceptus Capensibufo magistratus Capensibufo selenophos	Bufonidae	Taxonomy of the Capensibufo rosei group (Anura: Bufonidae) from South Africa [A. CHANNING, G.J. MEASEY, A.L. DE VILLIERS, A.A. TURNER, K.A. TOLLEY]
2017-01-31	Hyperolius ruvuensis	Hyperoliidae	A new, narrowly distributed, and critically endangered species of spiny-throated reed frog (Anura: Hyperoliidae) from a highly threatened coastal forest reserve in Tanzania [Christopher D. Barratt, Lucinda P. Lawson, Gabriela B. Bittencourt-Silva, Nike Doggart, Theron Morgan-Brown, Peter Nagel, & Simon P. Loader]
2017-01-20	Eleutherodactylus cattus	Eleutherodactylidae	Cryptic within cryptic: genetics, morphometrics, and bioacoustics delimitate a new species of Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from Eastern Cuba [ARIEL RODRÍGUEZ, ÁLVARO DUGO-COTA, SANTIAGO MONTERO-MENDIETA, ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ-VOYER, ROBERTO ALONSO BOSCH, MIGUEL VENCES, CARLES VILÀ]
2017-01-16	Ameerega shihuemoy	Dendrobatidae	A new species of poison-dart frog (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from Manu province, Amazon region of southeastern Peru, with notes on its natural history, bioacoustics, phylogenetics, and recommended conservation status [SHIRLEY J. SERRANO-ROJAS, ANDREW WHITWORTH, JAIME VILLACAMPA, RUDOLF VON MAY, JOSÉ M. PADIAL, JUAN C. CHAPARRO]
2017-01-12	Pristimantis ashaninka	Craugastoridae	A new species of Pristimantis (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae) from a montane forest of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru (Región Junín) [Edgar Lehr, Jiří Moravec]
2017-01-03	Aplastodiscus lutzorum	Hylidae	The first species of Aplastodiscus endemic to the Brazilian Cerrado (Anura, Hylidae) [Bianca V.M. Berneck, Ariovaldo A. Giaretta, Reuber A. Brandão, Carlos A. G. Cruz, Celio F.B. Haddad]