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Amphibians of Ecuador by Luis A. Coloma (Hardback)
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Published:
07 Apr 2025
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Number of pages:
520 pages
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Amphibians of Ecuador: Craugastoridae, Volume III is the third in a four-volume series that provides comprehensive, well-illustrated, and authoritative insights, making it an invaluable resource for biologists, conservationists, and others.
Amphibians of Ecuador: Craugastoridae. Volume III is the third in a four-volume series that provides comprehensive, well-illustrated, and authoritative insights, making it an invaluable resource for biologists, conservationists, and others. The series explores, in comprehensive detail, the cultural history and the rich amphibian diversity of Ecuador, providing a thorough review of biogeography, amphibian declines, and conservation.Volume III specifically focuses on Craugastoridae. Characteristics of each species are listed, defined, and compared to other similar species. Reproductive behavior, where known, is described, as are data on vocalizations. Amphibian distributions are detailed and illustrated with physiographic maps with dots. The volume also addresses the declines, extinctions, and conservation status of each species, noting their occurrence in reserves.KEY FEATURES: Provides detailed and comprehensive accounts for all Craugastoridae species from Ecuador New data are incorporated for many species Describes with full color maps the distribution of all known taxa Includes information on the ecology, reproduction, and behavior of all taxa.
About the Author: Luis A. ColomaLuis A. Coloma is an amphibian biologist that was born in Guaranda, Provincia Bolìvar, Ecuador, in 1962. He received his licenciatura in biological sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) in 1987. In 1991, he was granted an MA in the Department of Systematics and Ecology at the University of Kansas, where he was mentored by William E. Duellman; his thesis was "Ecuadorian Frogs of the Genus Colostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)." For his PhD, he was under the guidance of Linda Trueb; in 1997 he completed his dissertation, "Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogenetic Relationships Among Frogs of the Genus Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae)." For 19 years, from 1991 to 2010 he was a professor and senior lecturer, in charge of vertebrates and in charge of the Herpetology Section at the Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas at PUCE. He has mentored 23 licenciatura students. Since 2011, he has been Director and Researcher at Centro Jambatu de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios in Quito, Ecuador. Coloma has published 69 scientific papers, with 56 of these articles focused on amphibians indexed in Scopus (as of 31 May 2023). Additionally, he has authored 32 outreach publications, including two photo coffee table books: Ecuador Megadiverso and Sapos, Ecuador Sapodiverso.He has described or co-described 31 new species of frogs, among which 28 are Ecuadorian frogs of the genera Atelopus (7), Hyloxalus (6), Gastrotheca (4), Hyloscirtus (4), Engystomops (3), Pristimantis (2), Leucostethus (1), and Epipedobates (1). Four species of frogs, one lizard, and one earthworm have been named in his honor by his colleagues. In 2007, he was awarded the Sabin Award for Conservation of Amphibians, awarded by the World Conservation Union and Conservation International. In 2008, he received the Saint Louis Zoo Conservation Award in recognition of his extraordinary lifelong dedication to the conservation of Ecuadorian biodiversity. In 2009, he was appointed a member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences. Additional information about Coloma's life appears in Chapter 2 of Volume I and references therein.William Edward Duellman (1930-2022)William E. Duellman was a herpetologist that was born in Dayton, Ohio, on 6 September 1930. He passed away on 25 February 2022. He earned three degrees from the University of Michigan-a BA (1951) in zoology with a minor in geography, an MS (1952) in zoology with a minor in botany, and a PhD (1956) in zoology in with a minor in geology. His doctoral dissertation was on snakes of the genus Leptodeira. Since 1959, most of Duellman's academic life was at the University of Kansas, where he was a professor in the Department of Systematics and Ecology and Curator and Curator Emeritus of Herpetology in the Natural History Museum (now Biodiversity Institute). He published 386 titles (among them 12 books). Among these books are Hylid Frogs of Middle America, An Equatorial Herpetofauna, Biology of Amphibians (with Linda Trueb); Cuzco Amazónico: Lives of Amphibians and Reptiles in a Tropical Rainforest, Terrestrial Breeding Frogs (Strabomantidae) in Peru (with Edgar Lehr); and Marsupial Frogs and Allied Genera. Duellman served as the major professor for 12 master's and 34 PhD students, and he mentored seven post-doctoral scholars. During his time at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, he built up the collection from 59,000 to more than 300,000 specimens through extensive field work by himself and with his students and by acquiring other collections, making it the fourth largest herpetological collection in the United States and by far the most significant collection of the herpetofauna of Latin America. He has described or co-described 252 species of amphibians from the Neotropics, among which 93 are from Ecuador. Six species of frogs and five species of reptiles has named in his honor. Additional information about Duellman's life is provided in Chapter 2 of Volume I and references therein.
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