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A Novel Reproductive Mode in Frogs: a New Species of Fanged Frog with Internal Fertilization and Birth of Tadpoles

Overview
Journal PLoS One
Specialties General Medicine
Science
Date 2015 Jan 1
PMID 25551466
Citations 15
Authors
Djoko T Iskandar
Ben J Evans
Jimmy A McGuire
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Abstract

We describe a new species of fanged frog (Limnonectes larvaepartus) that is unique among anurans in having both internal fertilization and birth of tadpoles. The new species is endemic to Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. This is the fourth valid species of Limnonectes described from Sulawesi despite that the radiation includes at least 15 species and possibly many more. Fewer than a dozen of the 6455 species of frogs in the world are known to have internal fertilization, and of these, all but the new species either deposit fertilized eggs or give birth to froglets.

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