Late News on Hyloid Frogs — Tetrapod Zoology

That’s where we’ll end. I wanted to talk about recent discoveries in toads and poison dart frogs too, but it will have to wait.

For previous Tet Zoo articles on hyloids, see… 

• Green-boned glass frogs, monkey frogs, toothless toads, November 2007

• The toads series comes to SciAm: because Africa has toads too, September 2011

• 20-chromosome toads, September 2011

• Glassfrogs: translucent skin, green bones, arm spines, January 2013

• Everybody loves glassfrogs, February 2013

• African tree toads, smalltongue toads, four-digit toads, red-backed toads: yes, a whole load of obscure African toads, December 2014

• Gladiatorial glassfrogs, redux, January 2015

• Frogs you may not have heard of: Brazil’s Cycloramphus ‘button frogs’, January 2015

• It’s the Helmeted water toad… this time, with information!, January 2015

• The Terrible Leaf Walker Frog, March 2017

• What, If Anything, Is A Strabomantid?, January 2024

• A World Without Baw Baw Frogs?, October 2026

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