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Amazon Amphibian List - English
URL: http://www.greentracks.com/AmphList.html

The following includes 186 taxa that I recognize as occurring or potentially occurring in the Iquitos area as of 1998. This area comprises a radius of about 500 km (see reptile checklist). Please note that this is a working checklist and, as such, contains reference to unpublished or undescribed taxa. Common names in English are in the process of being standardized. Included are 3 orders, 12 families, and 44 genera as follows: frogs (8 families, 36 genera, 165 species); salamanders (1 family, 1 genus, 4 species); and caecilians (3 families, 7 genera, 17 species).

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The Impact of Tourism on the Herpetofauna of Tambopata - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/project_tambopata_peru/herpetofauna.htm

The herpetofaunal component of TReeS-RAMOS Project Tambopata is the first study to analyse potential anthropogenic impacts on rainforest herpetofaunal communities. While studies have shown that some mammal and bird communities are altered by tourism (Griffiths & van Schaik 1993, Hidinger 1996, Yoon 1997), effects on herpetofauna are completely unknown. Reptiles and amphibians, many of which are nocturnal, arboreal, fossorial, or cryptozoic, come into contact with tourists less often than the larger, more visible mammal and bird species. Nevertheless, the presence of tourists and their trails may, indeed, impact the local herpetofauna.

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AmphibiaWeb Species List: Microhylidae - English
URL: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/lists/Microhylidae.shtml

Small to medium sized (up to 100mm) terrestrial or arboreal frogs. The well over 330 species are distributed throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and Madagascar. They display a variety of reproductive strategies including aquatic larvae, larvae without mouth parts and direct development.

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Preliminary Checklist of the Herpetofauna of Guyana - English
URL: http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/bdg/guyherps.html

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