ArticlePloS one2014
Cryptic diversity in metropolis: confirmation of a new leopard frog species (Anura: Ranidae) from New York City and surrounding Atlantic coast regions.
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- What can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID-19 global shutdown?Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) · 2020Article
- Follow-up ecological studies for cryptic species discoveries: Decrypting the leopard frogs of the eastern U.S.PloS one · 2018Article
- Hidden in the urban parks of New York City:ZooKeys · 2017Article
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- A New Species of Frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) Discovered from the Mega City of Dhaka.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
We describe a new cryptic species of leopard frog from the New York City metropolitan area and surrounding coastal regions. This species is morphologically similar to two largely parapatric eastern congeners, Rana sphenocephala and R. pipiens. We primarily use bioacoustic and molecular data to characterize the new species, but also examine other lines of evidence. This discovery is unexpected in one of the largest and most densely populated urban parts of the world. It also demonstrates that new vertebrate species can still be found periodically even in well-studied locales rarely associated with undocumented biodiversity. The new species typically occurs in expansive open-canopied wetlands interspersed with upland patches, but centuries of loss and impact to these habitats give some cause for conservation concern. Other concerns include regional extirpations, fragmented extant populations, and a restricted overall geographic distribution. We assign a type locality within New York City and report a narrow and largely coastal lowland distribution from central Connecticut to northern New Jersey (based on genetic data) and south to North Carolina (based on call data).
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