La Bioespeleología: un mundo por descubrir

La Bioespeleología: un mundo por descubrir

martes, 2 de septiembre de 2014

Diversidad y distribución de ranas en cuevas de la India

Un nuevo trabajo ha aparecido recientemente en la revista Ambient Sciencie vol. 1 (2), firmado por Jayant Biswas, y titulado "Occurrence and Distribution of Cave Dwelling Frogs of Peninsular India", un interesante trabajo sobre herpetos de cuevas de la India.


El resumen en inglés os lo dejo abajo, pero podéis ver el trabajo completo en:


ABSTRACT:
The life in subterranean caves always needs a high degree of biological adaptability, due to its unusual ecosystem. The cave dwelling species usually get selected from preadapted biological traits for cave life. The cave dwelling tendencies in frog are veryuncommon. Majority ofreported cave frogsusually refer cave for temporary shelter. In India, the biospeleological inventory is still in its primary stage. Till date no serious attempt has been taken to understand thecavedwelling habitat forany frog in India. Inspiteof it, in India time to time various reports on natural histories of anurans reveal its cave dwelling tendencies. On the basis of personal observations and available literature in this report I have documented the occurrences and distributions of five cave dwelling frogs of India. Common biological traits from all the established cave frogs, which could be referred aspreadapted for cave life, have been discussed. Further, the possible threats and IUCN status of each discussed species has been highlighted.

Enhorabuena al autor por este trabajo tan interesante.

Imagen extraída del trabajo anteriormente citado.