Iskandar Djoko T, Evans Ben J, McGuire Jimmy A
School of Life Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia.
Center for Environmental Genomics, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PLoS One. 2014 Dec 31;9(12):e115884. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115884. eCollection 2014.
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.
我们描述了一种新的有齿蛙(Limnonectes larvaepartus),它在无尾两栖类动物中独一无二,具有体内受精和蝌蚪出生的特征。这种新物种是印度尼西亚苏拉威西岛特有的。尽管该类群至少包括15个物种,可能还有更多,但这是从苏拉威西岛描述的第四种有效的Limnonectes物种。世界上已知的6455种蛙类中,只有不到十二种具有体内受精,而在这些物种中,除了这种新物种外,其他要么产受精卵,要么生出幼蛙。