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Hamilton's frog, Leiopelma hamiltoni

Hamilton's frog, Leiopelma hamiltoni SPECIES BY SPECIES Hamilton’s frog, Leiopelma hamiltoni Bruce Waldman 200 frogs, recent censuses suggest that substantially fewer remain. Hamilton’s Frog is one of the most endangered Department of Zoology frogs in the world. University of Canterbury Until recently, a second larger population of frogs on Private Bag 4800 nearby Maud Island was considered to be the same species, Christchurch NEW ZEALAND but the Maud Island frog has been reclassified as a new Email bw@zool.canterbury.ac.nz species Leiopelma pakeka. Whether the genetic Web www.zool.canterbury.ac.nz/bw.htm differentiation between the populations is sufficient to justify their classification as distinct species is currently magine the frogs that lived during the time that dinosaurs being debated. Their appearance, life history, and ecology Iroamed the earth, nearly 200 million years ago, and they all are similar. would probably closely resemble living frogs today in the family Leiopelmatidae. The primitive morphological Hamilton’s Frogs are small (up to 46 mm long), brown, characteristics of the four extant species of Leiopelma frogs terrestrial frogs of relatively slender build. Their tongues, resemble those of fossils from the Jurassic era. The unlike those of modern frogs, are hinged at the back of the phenotypically similar North American Tailed Frog, mouth so they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biodiversity Taylor & Francis

Hamilton's frog, Leiopelma hamiltoni

Waldman, Bruce
Biodiversity , Volume 1 (3): 2 – Aug 1, 2000
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SPECIES BY SPECIES Hamilton’s frog, Leiopelma hamiltoni Bruce Waldman 200 frogs, recent censuses suggest that substantially fewer remain. Hamilton’s Frog is one of the most endangered Department of Zoology frogs in the world. University of Canterbury Until recently, a second larger population of frogs on Private Bag 4800 nearby Maud Island was considered to be the same species, Christchurch NEW ZEALAND but the Maud Island frog has been reclassified as a new Email bw@zool.canterbury.ac.nz species Leiopelma pakeka. Whether the genetic Web www.zool.canterbury.ac.nz/bw.htm differentiation between the populations is sufficient to justify their classification as distinct species is currently magine the frogs that lived during the time that dinosaurs being debated. Their appearance, life history, and ecology Iroamed the earth, nearly 200 million years ago, and they all are similar. would probably closely resemble living frogs today in the family Leiopelmatidae. The primitive morphological Hamilton’s Frogs are small (up to 46 mm long), brown, characteristics of the four extant species of Leiopelma frogs terrestrial frogs of relatively slender build. Their tongues, resemble those of fossils from the Jurassic era. The unlike those of modern frogs, are hinged at the back of the phenotypically similar North American Tailed Frog, mouth so they

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Published: Aug 1, 2000

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