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The first endemic West African vertebrate family – a new anuran family highlighting the uniqueness of the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot

BACKGROUND: Higher-level systematics in amphibians is relatively stable. However, recent phylogenetic studies of African torrent-frogs have uncovered high divergence in these phenotypically and ecologically similar frogs, in particular between West African torrent-frogs versus Central (Petropedetes)...

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Autores principales: Barej, Michael F, Schmitz, Andreas, Günther, Rainer, Loader, Simon P, Mahlow, Kristin, Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3925359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24485269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-8