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Biodiversity Hotspots - Sundaland Sundaland
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URL: http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/sundaland/?showpage=Biodiversity
Sundaland is one of the biologically richest hotspots on Earth, with about
25,000 species of vascular plants, 15,000 (60 percent) of which are found
nowhere else. Amphibian diversity and endemism is also quite high, with 226 species of
amphibians, 179 (79.2 percent) of which are found nowhere else in the world.
Important regionally endemic amphibian genera in Sundaland are the splash
frogs (Staurois), the stream toads (Ansonia), and the Indonesia tree toads
(Leptophryne). [ eng ] |

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Leptophryne borbonica
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URL: http://frogweb.org/species_accounts/leptophryne_borbonica.html
A multimedia information resource on the frogs and toads (Order: Anura) of the Malay Peninsula, with text, image and audio files delivering detailed and accurate information on amphibian systematics and taxonomy, nomenclature and etymology, zoogeography, natural history and ecology, etc., as well as discussion of herpetological field craft and equipment, survey methodologies etc. [ eng ] |

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