The Amphibian Tree of Life

From the AZA Amphibian list serve.


NEWS RELEASE
The Center for North American Herpetology
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.cnah.org
16 March 2006

THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE

by Darrel R. Frost, Taran Grant, Juliá N Faivovich, Raoul H. Bain, Alexander
Haas,
Célio F. B. Haddad, Rafael O. De Sá, Alan Channing, Mark Wilkinson, Stephen C.
Donnellan, Christopher J. Raxworthy, Jonathan A. Campbell, Boris L. Blotto, Paul
Moler, Robert C. Drewes, Ronald A. Nussbaum, John D. Lynch, David M. Green, and
Ward C. Wheeler.

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370 (9.2 MGB pdf)

The most definitive work on the taxonomy of the Class Amphibia ever written.
An essential work for the library of every herpetologist/biologist worldwide.

A copy of this article can be downloaded gratis by visiting the CNAH PDF Library
at

http://www.cnah.org/cnah_pdf.asp

I haven't tried to read every word of this magnum opus. But if I'm interpreting it correctly, Caudata has 9 families, not 10, with the Dicamptodontidae now being included in Ambystomatidae. There are also changes at the genus level, but I haven't gotten into that yet

i wont even try downloading it till i am on campus-it would take forever on my modem!

Yes, it's a long download, even using a cable modem.

Oooo! can't wait to get my teeth into this, now i have a good read for the plane journey!