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February 2018

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Relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

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February 6, 2018

Relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

This study explores the relationship between 2D and 3D metrics of coral size. Researchers used a photogrammetric approach, with open-source software, to estimate the ability of photogrammetry to provide measurement estimates of corals in 3D

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February 23, 2018

A striking new genus and species of cave-dwelling frog (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae: Asterophryinae) from Thailand

Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Montri Sumontha, Jitthep Tunprasert, Thiti Ruangsuwan, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Dmitriy V. Korost, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4422 PubMed 29497587

February 13, 2018

A new slider turtle (Testudines: Emydidae: Deirochelyinae: Trachemys) from the late Hemphillian (late Miocene/early Pliocene) of eastern Tennessee and the evolution of the deirochelyines

Steven E. Jasinski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4338 PubMed 29456887

February 9, 2018

A new species of Amazonian snouted treefrog (Hylidae: Scinax) with description of a novel species-habitat association for an aquatic breeding frog

Miquéias Ferrão, Rafael de Fraga, Jiří Moravec, Igor L. Kaefer, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4321 PubMed 29441233

February 20, 2018

Phylogeny, time divergence, and historical biogeography of the South American Liolaemus alticolor-bibronii group (Iguania: Liolaemidae)

Sabrina N. Portelli, Andrés S. Quinteros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4404 PubMed 29479502

February 21, 2018

A simple method of equine limb force vector analysis and its potential applications

Sarah Jane Hobbs, Mark A. Robinson, Hilary M. Clayton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4399 PubMed 29492341

February 20, 2018

The Far East taiga forest: unrecognized inhospitable terrain for migrating Arctic-nesting waterbirds?

Xin Wang, Lei Cao, Inga Bysykatova, Zhenggang Xu, Sonia Rozenfeld, Wooseog Jeong, Didier Vangeluwe, Yunlin Zhao, Tianhe Xie, Kunpeng Yi, Anthony David Fox

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4353 PubMed 29479493

February 27, 2018

Psychrophrynella glauca sp. n., a new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forests of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru

Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4444 PubMed 29507835

February 14, 2018

Ontogeny of long-range vocalizations in a Neotropical fossorial rodent: the Anillaco Tuco-Tuco (Ctenomys sp.)

Juan Pablo Amaya, Juan Ignacio Areta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4334 PubMed 29472999