| 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] |
| 2017-06-20 | 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
(Microhylinae) | 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 [expand article infoJuan 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] |
| 2017-05-01 | 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
(Microhylinae) | 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] |
| 2017-03-16 | 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 | 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] |
| 2017-03-02 | 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
(Cophylinae) | 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
(Gastrophryninae) | 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] |
| 2016-12-31 | Oreobates yanucu | Craugastoridae | Description and phylogenetic position of a new (singleton) species of Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Yungas of Cochabamba, Bolivia [Jörn Köhler, Jose M. Padial] |
| 2016-12-31 | Oedipina berlini | Plethodontidae | A new species of salamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Oedipina) from the central Caribbean foothills of Costa Rica. [B. KUBICKI] |
| 2016-12-30 | Psychrophrynella chaupi
Psychrophrynella colla
Psychrophrynella melanocheira | Craugastoridae | Three new Bolivian species of Psychrophrynella (Anura: Craugastoridae), and comments on the amphibian fauna of the Cordillera de Apolobamba [Ignacio De la Riva & James Aparicio] |
| 2016-12-25 | Euphlyctis karaavali | Dicroglossidae | A New Species of Euphlyctis (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from the West Coastal Plains of India [Hebbar PRITI, Chandrakanth Rukkappa NAIK, Kadaba Shamanna SESHADRI, Ramit SINGAL, Madhava Kulkarni VIDISHA, Gudasalmani RAVIKANTH and Kotambylu Vasudeva GURURAJA] |
| 2016-12-19 | Hyperolius drewesi | Hyperoliidae | A New Species of Hyperolius (Amphibia: Hyperoliidae) from Príncipe Island, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe [Rayna C. Bell] |
| 2016-12-12 | Paramesotriton aurantius | Salamandridae | A new species of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Fujian, southeastern China [ZHIYONG YUAN, YUNKE WU, JIAJUN ZHOU, JING CHE] |
| 2016-12-08 | Lynchius oblitus
Lynchius tabaconas | Craugastoridae | Molecular Phylogenetics and Taxonomy of the Andean Genus Lynchius Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke 2008 (Anura: Craugastoridae) [Ana P. Motta, Juan C. Chaparro, José P. Pombal, Jr., Juan M. Guayasamin, Ignacio De la Riva, and José M. Padial] |
| 2016-11-24 | Nototriton nelsoni
Nototriton oreadorum | Plethodontidae | Taxonomic revision of the moss salamander Nototriton barbouri (Schmidt (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with description of two new species from the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras [JOSIAH H. TOWNSEND] |
| 2016-11-18 | Oreophryne anser
Oreophryne aurora
Oreophryne anser
Oreophryne banshee
Oreophryne equus
Oreophryne lemur
Oreophryne matawan
Oreophryne meliades
Oreophryne penelopeia
Oreophryne picticrus
Oreophryne philosylleptoris | Microhylidae
(Asterophryinae) | Ten new species of Oreophryne (Anura, Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea [FRED KRAUS] |
| 2016-11-17 | Phrynomedusa dryade | Phyllomedusidae | Review of the Rare Genus Phrynomedusa Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923 (Anura: Phyllomedusidae) With Description of a New Species [Délio Baêta, Luís Olímpio Menta Giasson, José P. Pombal Jr., and Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad] |
| 2016-11-17 | Scinax rossaferesae | Hylidae | A new species of Scinax Wagler (Anura: Hylidae) from Paraná, Southern Brazil [CARLOS E. CONTE, KATYUSCIA ARAUJO-VIEIRA, LUCAS B. CRIVELLARI, BIANCA V. M. BERNECK] |
| 2016-11-16 | Indirana bhadrai
Indirana paramakri | Ranixalidae | Molecular and Morphological Study of Leaping Frogs (Anura, Ranixalidae) with Description of Two New Species [Sonali Garg,S. D. Biju] |
| 2016-11-15 | Thorius pinicola
Thorius longicaudus
Thorius tlaxiacus | Plethodontidae | Biology of tiny animals: three new species of minute salamanders (Plethodontidae: Thorius) from Oaxaca, Mexico [Gabriela Parra-Olea, Sean M. Rovito, Mario García-París, Jessica A. Maisano, David B. Wake, James Hanken] |
| 2016-11-09 | Tepuihyla shushupe | Hylidae | Systematics of Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa with the description of a new species and comments on the taxonomy of Trachycephalus typhonius (Anura, Hylidae) [Santiago R. Ron, Pablo J. Venegas, H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade, Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia, Patricia E. Salerno] |
| 2016-11-04 | Bolitoglossa aurae | Plethodontidae | A beautiful new yellow salamander, genus Bolitoglossa (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from the northeastern slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica [BRIAN KUBICKI, ERICK ARIAS] |
| 2016-11-04 | Uperoleia mahonyi | Myobatrachidae | A new species of Australian frog (Myobatrachidae: Uperoleia) from the New South Wales mid-north coast sandplains [SIMON CLULOW, MARION ANSTIS, J. SCOTT KEOGH, RENEE A. CATULLO] |
| 2016-10-30 | Fritziana tonimi | Hemiphractidae | Fritziana tonimi • A New Polymorphic Species of Egg-Brooding Frog of the Genus Fritziana (Anura: Hemiphractidae) from southeastern Brazil [Marina Walker, João Luiz Gasparini and Célio F. B. Haddad] |
| 2016-10-28 | Fejervarya chiangmaiensis | Dicroglossidae | A new species of genus Fejervarya (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from northern Thailand [Chatmongkon SUWANNAPOOM, Zhi-Yong YUAN, Nikolay A. POYARKOV Jr., Fang YAN, Somboon KAMTAEJA, Robert W. MURPHY, Jing CHE] |
| 2016-10-27 | Brachycephalus albolineatus | Brachycephalidae | A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Santa Catarina, southern Brazil [Marcos R. Bornschein, Luiz F. Ribeiro, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Marcio R. Pie] |
| 2016-10-20 | Oreophryne flavomaculata
Oreophryne pseudunicolor | Microhylidae
(Asterophryinae) | Description of two new species of the microhylid frog genus Oreophryne (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from southern Papua New Guinea [Rainer Günther & Stephen Richards] |
| 2016-09-27 | Litoria bella | Hylidae | A new species of treefrog (Litoria) from Cape York Peninsula, Australia [KEITH R. MCDONALD, JODI J. L. ROWLEY, STEPHEN J. RICHARDS, GRETA J. FRANKHAM] |
| 2016-09-26 | Amolops albispinus | Ranidae | A new species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from southern China [YIK-HEI SUNG, PING HU, JIAN WANG, HAI-JUN LIU, YING-YONG WANG] |
| 2016-09-21 | Hynobius unisacculus | Hynobiidae | A new species of salamander of the genus Hynobius (Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) from South Korea [MI-SOOK MIN, HAE-JUN BAEK, JAE-YOUNG SONG, MIN HO CHANG, NIKOLAY A. JR. POYARKOV] |
| 2016-09-15 | Indirana duboisi
Indirana sarojamma
Indirana tysoni
Indirana yadera | Ranixalidae | Leaping frogs (Anura: Ranixalidae) of the Western Ghats of India: An integrated taxonomic review [Neelesh Dahanukar, Nikhil Modak, Keerthi Krutha, P.O. Nameer, Anand D. Padhye & Sanjay Molur] |
| 2016-09-14 | Theloderma annae | Rhacophoridae | A new species of Theloderma (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam [TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, CUONG THE PHAM, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, HAI NGOC NGO, THOMAS ZIEGLER] |
| 2016-08-31 | Telmatobius mantaro | Telmatobiidae | A New Species of Telmatobius Wiegmann, 1834, from the Eastern Cordillera Central of the Andes, Peru (Anura: Telmatobiidae), with Description of Its Tadpole, and Range Extension of T. mendelsoni de la Riva et al., 2012 [TTITO, LANDAURO, VENEGAS, DE LA RIVA & CHAPARRO] |
| 2016-08-30 | Diasporus darienensis
Diasporus majeensis
Diasporus pequeno
Diasporus sapo | Eleutherodactylidae | An integrative approach to reveal speciation and species richness in the genus Diasporus (Amphibia: Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) in eastern Panama [ABEL BATISTA, GUNTHER KÖHLER, KONRAD MEBERT, ANDREAS HERTZ, and MILAN VESEL] |
| 2016-08-25 | Amietia moyerorum | Pyxicephalidae | Species boundaries and taxonomy of the African river frogs (Amphibia: Pyxicephalidae: Amietia) [A. CHANNING, J.M. DEHLING, S. LÖTTERS, R. ERNST] |
| 2016-08-23 | Scinax caissara | Hylidae | A new species of the Scinax catharinae group (Anura: Hylidae) from southeastern Brazil [ANA CAROLINA C. LOURENÇO, JULIANA ZINA, GAUCILENE F. CATROLI, SANAE KASAHARA, JULIAN FAIVOVICH, CÉLIO F. B. HADDAD] |
| 2016-08-15 | Pseudopaludicola ibisoroca
Pseudopaludicola motorzinho | Leptodactylidae | Two New Species of Pseudopaludicola (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) from Eastern Bolivia and Western Brazil. [André Pansonato, Ana Cristina P. Veiga-Menoncello, Jessica R. Mudrek, Martin Jansen, Shirlei M. Recco-Pimentel, Itamar A. Martins, and Christine Strüssmann] |
| 2016-08-15 | Hypsiboas cambui | Hylidae | A New Species of the Hypsiboas pulchellus Group from the Serra da Mantiqueira, Southeastern Brazil (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). [Paulo D.P. Pinheiro, Tiago L. Pezzuti, Felipe S.F. Leite, Paulo C.A. Garcia, Célio F.B. Haddad, and Julián Faivovich] |
| 2016-08-12 | Pristimantis urani | Craugastoridae | Molecular phylogenetics of the Pristimantis lacrimosus species group (Anura: Craugastoridae) with the description of a new species from Colombia [Mauricio Rivera-Correa, Juan M. Daza] |
| 2016-08-11 | Pristimantis pulchridormientes | Craugastoridae | A new species of frog of the genus Pristimantis from Tingo María National Park, Huánuco Department, central Peru (Anura, Craugastoridae) [Germán Chávez, Alessandro Catenazzi] |
| 2016-08-11 | Leptobrachium tengchongense | Megophryidae | A new species of the genus Leptobrachium (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Gaoligongshan Mountain Range, China [JIAN-HUAN YANG, YING-YONG WANG, BOSCO PUI-LOK CHAN] |
| 2016-08-05 | Theloderma lacustrinum | Rhacophoridae | A new small-sized Theloderma (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Laos [NIANE SIVONGXAY, MONEKHAM DAVANKHAM, SOMPHOUTHONE PHIMMACHAK, KEOCHAY PHOUMIXAY, BRYAN L. STUART] |
| 2016-08-05 | Leptobrachella itiokai | Megophryidae | A new highland species of dwarf litter frog genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Sarawak [Koshiro Eto, Masafumi Matsui and Kanto Nishikawa] |
| 2016-07-21 | Pristimantis prometeii | Craugastoridae | A new species of Pristimantis from southern Ecuador (Anura, Craugastoridae) [Paul Székely, Dan Cogălniceanu, Diana Székely, Nadia Paez, Santiago Ron] |
| 2016-07-14 | Pristimantis allpapuyu
Pristimantis hampatusami
Pristimantis kuri | Craugastoridae | Tres nuevas especies de ranas terrestres Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) de la Provincia de El Oro, Ecuado [Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Juan Carlos Sánchez-Nivicela, Carolina Reyes-Puig] |
| 2016-06-30 | Oedipina capitalina | Plethodontidae | On the taxonomy of Oedipina stuarti (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with description of a new species from suburban Tegucigalpa, Honduras [Solís, J. M., M. R. Espinal, R. E. Valle, C. M. O’Reilly, M. W. Itgen & J. H. Townsend] |
| 2016-06-30 | Rhombophryne botabota
Rhombophryne savaka | Microhylidae
(Cophylinae) | Two new species of terrestrial microhylid frogs (Microhylidae: Cophylinae: Rhombophryne) from northeastern Madagascar [Mark D. Scherz, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences, Franco Andreone & Angelica Crottini] |
| 2016-06-30 | Craugastor gabbi | Craugastoridae | A new species of the Craugastor podiciferus species group (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the premontane forest of southwestern Costa Rica [ERICK ARIAS, GERARDO CHAVESCHAVES, ANDREW J. CRAWFORD, GABRIELA PARRA-OLEA] |
| 2016-06-30 | Philautus nephophilus | Rhacophoridae | A new small montane species of Philautus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae)from Gunung Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo) [J. Maximilian Dehling, Masafumi Matsui & Paul Yambun Imbun] |
| 2016-06-30 | Raorchestes lechiya
Raorchestes silentvalley | Rhacophoridae | Two new species of Raorchestes (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Silent Valley National Park in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats, India [Zachariah A, Cyriac VP, Chandramohan B, Ansil BR, Mathew JK, Raiu DV, Abraham RK] |
| 2016-06-26 | Ansonia teneritas | Bufonidae | From a lost world: an integrative phylogenetic analysis of Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Lissamphibia: Anura: Bufonidae), with the description of a new species [Lea E. Waser, Manuel Schweizer, Alexander Haas, Indraneil Das, André Jankowski, Pui Yong Min, Stefan T. Hertwig] |
| 2016-06-21 | Cyclorana occidentalis | Hylidae | Revision of the water-holding frogs, Cyclorana platycephala (Anura: Hylidae), from arid Australia, including a description of a new species) [MARION ANSTIS, LUKE C. PRICE, J. DALE ROBERTS, SARAH R. CATALANO, HARRY B. HINES, PAUL DOUGHTY, STEPHEN C. DONNELLAN] |
| 2016-06-10 | Pristimantis tinguichaca | Craugastoridae | A New Species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Cloud Forest of Sangay National Park, Ecuador [Jorge Brito M., Reed Ojala-Barbour, Diego Batallas R., and Ana Almendáriz C.] |
| 2016-05-30 | Pristimantis pluvialis | Craugastoridae | A new species of Pristimantis (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae) from the foothills of the Andes in Manu National Park, southeastern Peru [Alexander Shepack, Rudolf von May, Alex Ttito, Alessandro Catenazzi] |
| 2016-05-26 | Pristimantis llanganati
Pristimantis yanezi | Craugastoridae | Two new species of frogs of the genus Pristimantis from Llanganates National Park in Ecuador with comments on the regional diversity of Ecuadorian Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae) [María Navarrete, Pablo Javier Venegas, Santiago R. Ron] |
| 2016-05-23 | Osteocephalus camufatus | Hylidae | A new species of spiny-backed treefrog (Osteocephalus) from Central Amazonian Brazil (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) [KARL-HEINZ JUNGFER, VANESSA K. VERDADE, JULIÁN FAIVOVICH, MIGUEL T. RODRIGUES] |
| 2016-05-11 | Mantophryne insignis | Microhylidae
(Asterophryinae) | Description of a striking new Mantophryne species (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea [Rainer Günther, Stephen Richards] |
| 2016-05-05 | Triturus anatolicus | Salamandridae | Description of a new species of crested newt, previously subsumed in Triturus ivanbureschi (Amphibia: Caudata: Salamandridae) [B. WIELSTRA, J.W. ARNTZEN] |
| 2016-04-27 | Pristimantis buenaventura
Pristimantis nietoi | Craugastoridae | Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador [Alejandro Arteaga, R. Alexander Pyron, Nicolás Peñafiel, Paulina Romero-Barreto, Jaime Culebras, Lucas Bustamante, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Juan M. Guayasamin] |
| 2016-04-15 | Pseudocallulops foja | Microhylidae
(Asterophryinae) | A New Species of the Frog Genus Pseudocallulops from the Foja Mountains in Northwestern New Guinea (Amphibia, Microhylidae) [Rainer Günther, Stephen Richards, Burhan Tjaturadi] |
| 2016-04-13 | Dendropsophus mapinguari | Hylidae | A New Species of Clown Tree Frog, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus Species Group, from Amazonia (Anura, Hylidae) [Pedro L.V. Peloso, Victor G.D. Orrico, Célio F.B. Haddad, Geraldo R. Lima-Filho, Marcelo J. Sturaro] |
| 2016-04-12 | Ansonia smeagol | Bufonidae | The phylogenetic relationships of a new Stream Toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from a montane region in Peninsular Malaysia [HAYDEN R. DAVIS, L. LEE GRISMER, RANDY L. KLABACKA, MOHD ABDUL MUIN, EVAN S.H. QUAH, SHAHRUL ANUAR, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, JACK W. SITES] |
| 2016-03-22 | Limnonectes longchuanensis | Dicroglossidae | Taxonomic revision of the Chinese Limnonectes (Anura, Dicroglossidae) with the description of a new species from China and Myanmar [CHATMONGKON SUWANNAPOOM, ZHI-YONG YUAN, JIN-MIN CHEN, MIAN HOU, HAI-PENG ZHAO, LI-JUN WANG, TRUONG SON NGUYEN, TRUONG Q. NGUYEN, ROBERT W. MURPHY, JAQUELINE SULLIVAN, DAVID S. MCLEOD, JING CHE] |
| 2016-03-21 | Pseudopaludicola jaredi | Leptodactylidae | A new species of long-legged Pseudopaludicola from northeastern Brazil (Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leiuperinae) [Felipe Silva de Andrade, Felipe de Medeiros de Magalhães, Carlos Henrique Luz Nunes-de-Almeida, Ana Cristina Prado Veiga-Menoncello, Diego José Santana, Adrian Antonio Garda, Daniel Loebmann, Shirlei Maria Recco-Pimentel, Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta & Luís Felipe Toledo] |
| 2016-03-16 | Pristimantis dorado | Craugastoridae | Pristimantis dorado • A New Small Golden Frog of the Genus Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) from An Andean Cloud Forest of Colombia [Rivera-Correa, Lamadrid-Feris & Crawford] |
| 2016-03-14 | Psychrophrynella chirihampatu | Craugastoridae | A new species of Psychrophrynella (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae) from the humid montane forests of Cusco, eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes [Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito] |
| 2016-03-10 | Leptolalax tengchongensis | Megophryidae | A new species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from Mt. Gaoligongshan of western Yunnan Province, China [JIAN-HUAN YANG, YING-YONG WANG, GUO-LING CHEN, DING-QI RAO] |
| 2016-03-09 | Microhyla laterite | Microhylidae
(Microhylinae) | Microhyla laterite sp. nov., A New Species of Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from a Laterite Rock Formation in South West India [K. S. Seshadri, Ramit Singal, H. Priti, G. Ravikanth, M. K. Vidisha, S. Saurabh, M. Pratik, Kotambylu Vasudeva Gururaja] |
| 2016-03-02 | Raorchestes honnametti | Rhacophoridae | Integrative Taxonomic Approach for Describing a New Cryptic Species of Bush Frog (Raorchestes: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats, India [H. Priti, Rekha Sarma Roshmi, Badrinath Ramya, H. S. Sudhira, G. Ravikanth, Neelavara Anantharam Aravind, Kotambylu Vasudeva Gururaja] |
| 2016-03-02 | Fejervarya (Zakerana) dhaka | Dicroglossidae | A New Species of Frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) Discovered from the Mega City of Dhaka [Mohammad Sajid Ali Howlader, Abhilash Nair, Juha Merilä] |
| 2016-03-02 | Pachytriton wuguanfui | Salamandridae | A new species of the genus Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Hunan and Guangxi, southeastern China [ZHI-YONG YUAN, BAO-LIN ZHANG, JING CHE] |
| 2016-03-10 | Leptolalax ardens
Leptolalax kalonensis
Leptolalax maculosus
Leptolalax pallidus
Leptolalax tadungensis | Megophryidae | Five new, microendemic Asian Leaf-litter Frogs (Leptolalax) from the southern Annamite mountains, Vietnam [JODI J. L. ROWLEY, DAO T. A. TRAN, DUONG T. T. LE, VINH Q. DAU, PEDRO L. V. PELOSO, TRUONG Q. NGUYEN, HUY D. HOANG, TAO T. NGUYEN, THOMAS ZIEGLER] |
| 2016-02-26 | Odorrana mutschmanni | Ranidae | A new species of Odorrana (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae) from Vietnam [CUONG THE PHAM, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE, MICHAEL BONKOWSKI, THOMAS ZIEGLER] |
| 2016-02-24 | Hypsiboas diabolicus | Hylidae | Cryptic diversity in the Hypsiboas semilineatus species group (Amphibia, Anura) with the description of a new species from the eastern Guiana Shield [ANTOINE FOUQUET, QUENTIN MARTINEZ, LAUREN ZEIDLER, ELODIE A. COURTOIS, PHILIPPE GAUCHER, MICHEL BLANC, JUCIVALDO DIAS LIMA, SERGIO MARQUES SOUZA, MIGUEL T. RODRIGUES, JUCIVALDO DIAS LIMA, SERGIO MARQUES SOUZA, MIGUEL T. RODRIGUES, PHILIPPE J. R. KOK] |
| 2016-02-23 | Allobates bucurau | Aromobatidae | A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Madeira River basin with a small geographic range [PEDRO IVO SIMÕES] |
| 2016-02-18 | Brachycephalus sulfuratus | Brachycephalidae | A new species of flea-toad (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil [THAIS HELENA CONDEZ, JULIANE PETRY DE CARLI MONTEIRO, ESTEVÃO JASPER COMITTI, PAULO CHRISTIANO DE ANCHIETTA GARCIA, IVAN BOREL AMARAL, CÉLIO FERNANDO BAPTISTA HADDAD] |
| 2016-02-15 | Amazophrynella javierbustamantei | Bufonidae | Uncovering the diversity in the Amazophrynella minuta complex: integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of Amazophrynella (Anura, Bufonidae) from southern Peru [Rommel R. Rojas, Juan Carlos Chaparro, Vinicius Tadeu Carvalho, Robson Avila, Izeni P. Farias, Tomas Hrbek, Marcelo Gordo] |
| 2016-01-31 | Nasutixalus medogensis | Rhacophoridae | A new genus and species of treefrog from Medog, southeastern Tibet, China (Anura, Rhacophoridae) [Ke JIANG, Fang YAN, Kai WANG, Da-Hu ZOU, Cheng LI, Jing CHE] |
| 2016-01-30 | Pristimantis iiap | Craugastoridae | A new species of the Pristimantis conspicillatus group from the Peruvian Amazon [Padial JM, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Chaparro JC, Gutierrez RC] |
| 2016-01-28 | Kurixalus berylliniris
Kurixalus wangi | Rhacophoridae | Systematic revision of the Taiwanese genus Kurixalus members with a description of two new endemic species (Anura, Rhacophoridae) [Shu-Ping Wu, Chuan-Chin Huang, Chi-Li Tsai, Te-En Lin, Jhih-Jia Jhang, Sheng-Hai Wu] |
| 2016-01-27 | Pristimantis pichincha | Craugastoridae | Otra nueva especie de rana Pristimantis (Anura: Terrarana) de las estribaciones occidentales del Volcán Pichincha, Ecuador [Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Patricia Bejarano-Muñoz y Santiago R. Ron] |
| 2016-01-21 | Amolops nyingchiensis | Ranidae | A new species of the genus Amolops (Amphibia: Ranidae) from southeastern Tibet, China [Ke JIANG, Kai WANG, Fang YAN, Jiang XIE, Da-Hu ZOU, Wu-Lin LIU, Jian-Ping JIANG, Cheng LI, Jing CHE] |
| 2016-01-21 | Scutiger spinosus | Megophryidae | A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from Medog of southeastern Tibet, China [Ke JIANG, Kai WANG, Da-Hu ZOU, Fang YAN, Pi-Peng LI, Jing CHE] |
| 2016-01-20 | Blythophryne beryet | Bufonidae | A New Genus and Species of Arboreal Toad (Anura, Bufonidae) with Phytotelmonous Larvae, from the Andaman Islands, India [S. R. Chandramouli, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, S Harikrishnan, Sushil Kumar Dutta, S Jegath Janani, Richa Sharma, Indraneil Das, Ramesh Aggarwal] |
| 2016-01-20 | neue Gattung Rentapia | Bufonidae | Polyphyly of Asian Tree Toads, Genus Pedostibes Günther, 1876 (Anura: Bufonidae), and the Description of a New Genus from Southeast Asia [Kin Onn Chan, L. Lee Grismer, Anil Zachariah, Rafe M. Brown, Robin Kurian Abraham] |
| 2016-01-18 | Pristimantis stictus | Craugastoridae | A new small frog species of the genus Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the northern paramos of Colombia [GUSTAVO A. GONZÁLEZ-DURÁN] |
| 2016-01-15 | Microhyla mihintalei | Microhylidae
(Microhylinae) | A new species of Microhyla (Anura: Microhylidae) from Sri Lanka: an integrative taxonomic approach [NAYANA WIJAYATHILAKA, SONALI GARG, GAYANI SENEVIRATHNE, NUWAN KARUNARATHNA, S.D. BIJU, MADHAVA MEEGASKUMBURA] |
| 2016-01-06 | Scinax haddadorum | Hylidae | A new species of Scinax Wagler (Anura: Hylidae) from Mato Grosso, Brazil [KATYUSCIA ARAUJO-VIEIRA, PAULA HANNA VALDUJO, JULIÁN FAIVOVICH] |
| 2016-01-05 | Hyloscirtus diabolus | Hylidae | A new red-eyed of stream treefrog of Hyloscirtus (Anura: Hylidae) from Peru, with comments on the taxonomy of the genus [MAURICIO RIVERA-CORREA, KARLA GARCÍA-BURNEO, TARAN GRANT] |
