Running log of additions and changes, 2024

Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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I attempt to summarize here what work I have done on ASW starting 1 January 2024. This log does not include error corrections and the like and I cannot promise that there will not be errors of omission or commission inasmuch as this log is not constructed automatically.

30 December 2024: Added Boulenophrys gaolanensis (Megophryidae), named by Song, Wang, Qi, Wang, and Wang, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 251–264, from Gaolan Island, Guangdong Province, China. No Zoobank registration so date of publication will extend from date of distribution of paper copies of the journal to libraries (date currently unknown–DRF).

30 December 2024: Added to the synonymies and comments for most of the species of Hylarana (Ranidae), noting the assignments to subgenera as delimited by Wu, Xu, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Murphy, Papenfuss, Lathrop, Kilunda, Gao, Yuan, Chen, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, Rahman, Nneji, Zhao, Wang, Jin, Zhang, and Che, 2024 "2025", Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108223: 1–11.

29 December 2024: Added Ichthyophis yangi (Ichthyophiidae), named by Rao, Zhou, Mo, Yu, Li, and Liu, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 279–288, from Maandi village, Jinping County of Yunnan Province in China. No Zoobank registration so will take date of publication from paper publication (date currently unknown–DRF).

29 December 2024: Added Rana qui Chen in Gao, Shen, Yang, Chen, Hou, and Chen, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 264–278, from Henan Province, China. The article also provided a mtDNA tree of the Rana chensinensis group. No Zoobank registration so official date of publication will depend on distribution date, currently unknown, of the paper publication (DRF).

29 December 2024: Added a comment under Lepidobatrachus laevis (Ceratophryidae), noting the publication of Hernandez-Nieto, Ziermann-Canabarro, and Lukas, 2024 "2025", Anat. Rec., 308: 26–44, who reported on the developmental sequence of the larval chondrocranium.

29 December 2024: Added a comment under Pelobatrachus stejnegeri (Megophryidae), noting the publication of Flores, Diesmos, and Nuñeza, 2023, Raffles Bull. Zool., 71: 658–668, who discussed larval morphology and identification.

27 December 2024: Added a comment under Dryophytes japonicus (Hylidae), noting the publication of Kidov, Ivolga, and Kondratova, 2024, Trudy Zool. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 328: 658–670, who reported on skeletochronology on Sakhalin and Kunashir Islands, Russia.

20 December 2024: Modified the range statement for Engystomops pustulosus (Leptodactylidae) and added a comment noting the publication of Nahuat-Cervera, Cambranis Cab, Brindis-Badillo, Ponce-Rosales, and Rangel-Torres, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 17: 257–263, who provided records from Campeche and provided a dot map of the species for the Mexican part of the Yucatan Peninsula.

20 December 2024: Added a comment under Atelopus ignescens (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Batallas-Revelo, Guayasamin, and Vega-Yánez, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 421–428, who reported on call variation in a population from Angamarca, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador.

19 December 2024: Added a comment under Pelobates syriacus (Pelobatidae), noting the publication of Omran, Baakliny, and Davis, 2024, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 19: 386–394, who discussed the range and provided a dot + polygon map of citizen-science observations in Syria.

18 December 2024: Added a comment undr Andinobates bombetes (Dendrobatidae), noting the publication of González-Acosta, Amézquita, and Vargas-Salinas, 2024, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 59: 686–698, who reported on geographic variation in advertisement call.

18 December 2024: Added comments under Arthroleptis schubotzi (Arthroleptidae), Hyperolius castaneus (Hyperoliidae), Hyperolius discodactylus, Hyperolius glandicolor, Leptopelis karissimbensis (Hyperoliidae), Leptopelis kivuensis, Phrynobatrachus bequaerti (Phrynobatrachidae), and Amietia desaegeri (Ranidae), noting the publication of Sinsch, Tuyisingize, Dehling, and van der Hoek, 2024, Animals, 14(2360): 1–21, who reported on acoustics and acoustic niche partitioning at various sites in Rwanda.

18 December 2024: Added a comment under Lyciasalamandra atifi (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Bülbül, Özkan, Zaman, Güngör, and Koç-Gür, 2024, Biol. Bull., 51 (Suppl. 1): 160–165, who provided a northernmost record in southern Isparta, Türkiye, and a dot map for the species.

18 December 2024: Modified the range statement for Telmatobius philippii (Telmatobiidae) and added a comment under that record noting the publication of Fibla, del Pozo D., Sáez, Lobos, and Méndez, 2024, Animals, 14(3612): 1–16, who reported on descriptive morphology, morphometrics, molecular markers, and species delimitation methods, and identified the mildly mtDNA-differentiated population from Ascotán and Carcote, Chile, as conspecific with Telmatobius philippii.

17 December 2024: Added Nyctimantis diadorim (Hylidae), named by Brandão, Queiroz, Ferreira, Álvares, Blotto, Garda, Gedraite, Santoro, and Faivovich, 2025 "2024", Herpetologica, 80: 347–357, from Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, Bahia, Brazil.

16 December 2024: Added comments under Leptobrachella melanoleuca (Megophryidae) and Leptobrachella, noting the publication of Rongchapho, Chuaynkern, Duangjai, Chalermwong, and Chuaynkern, 2024, Ecol. Montenegrina, 80: 152–170, who reported on larval morphology of genetically confirmed specimens and who provided a table comparing larval morphology across species in the genus.

16 December 2024: Modified the range statement for Hyloxalus anthracinus (Dendrobatidae) and added a comment noting the publication of Venegas and García Ayachi, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7(4: e1048): 247–251, who reported the species from Huamba District, Ayabaca Province, Piura Department, the first record from Peru, and provided a dot map of the species' range.

15 December 2024: Added a comment under Rana kukunoris (Ranidae), noting the publication of Yang, Shi, and Yu, 2024, Phyllomedusa, 23: 153–163, who reported on limb length variation with elevation in eastern Qinghai and western Gansu, China.

15 December 2024: Added a comment under Espadarana prosoblepon (Centrolenidae), noting the publication of Rodríguez-Correa, González-Alzate, Rada, and Vargas-Salinas, 2024, Phyllomedusa, 23: 165–178, who reported on the advertisement call from Armenia, Department of Quindío, Central Andes of Colombia

14 December 2024: Added a comment under Kaloula mediolineata (Microhylidae) noting the publication of Huynh, Quang, and Nguyen, 2024, Biomed. Biotech. Res. J., 8: 532–537, who reported on the complete mtDNA genome and the placement of the species within Kaloula, although only sampling 6 out of 20 species in the genus.

13 December 2024: Added a comment under Pristimantis peraticus (Strabomantidae), noting the publication of Duarte-Marín, 2024, Herpetol. Bull., London, 170: 38–41, who reported on the advertisement call and natural history.

13 December 2024: Added Kaloula discordia and Kaloula laosensis (Microhylidae), formerly confused with Kaloula indochinensis, both named in the publication of Gorin, Orlov, Bragin, Pawangkhanant, Milto, Le, Nguyen, Dufresnes, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 391–420, with a substantial discussion of the phylogenetics of the genus and the Kaloula baleata complex.

12 December 2024: Added a comment to the Blog, noting the outstanding Vimeo video on chytrid narrated by Karen Lips.

10 December 2024: Added comments under all species of Pseudis (including former Lysapsus) as well as the generic account noting the publication of Caballero-Gini, Brusquetti, Bueno-Villafañe, Quinteros-Muñoz, Jairam, Rodrigues, Haddad, Fernández Ríos, and Baldo, 2024, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 202: 1–13, who reported on molecular phylogenetics, systematics, and distribution.

9 December 2024: Added a comment under Zhangixalus omeimontis (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Mei, Qing, Deng, Zhao, and Jiang, 2024, Data in Brief , 57(111154): 1–11, who reported on the complete mtDNA genome and phylogenetic placement.

8 December 2024: Added a comment under Zhangixalus pachyproctus (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Pham, Trinh, Dang, Duong, Nguyen, Le, and Ziegler, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e137528): 1–15, who reported the species from Lang Son Province, Vietnam, and discussed natural history.

8 December 2024: Added a comment under Leptodactylus insularum (Leptodactylidae), noting the publication of Buitrago-Marulanda, Angel-Soto, Torres-Solarte, and López-Molina, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7 (4: e1022): 156–160, who reported the species from the Municipality of La Tebaida, Departament of Quindío (4.411339° N, 75.813361° W, 1,045 m), Colombia, and provided a dot map for the species in Colombia.

7 December 2024: Added comments under Paramesotriton deloustali and Paramesotriton guangxiensis (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Nguyen, Nguyen, Ngo, Ninh, Nguyen, Pham, Nguyen, Bernardes, and Ziegler, 2024, Vietnam J. Biotech., 22: 543–559, who reported on mtDNA phylogenetics within Vietnam and refined understanding of the distribution in that country.

4 December 2024: Added a comment under Leptobrachella dushanensis (Megophryidae), noting the publication of Liu, Cheng, Li, Cheng, and Wei, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 373–378, who reported on the advertisement call.

4 December 2024: Added a comment under Telmatobius ceiorum (Telmatobiidae), noting the publication of Barrionuevo, Stazzonelli, and Rojas Paz, 2024, Biol. Conserv., 301(110895): 1–4, who reported on the first collection in 40 years, provided a dot map of historical localities and a new locality at Hualinchay, Departamento Trancas, in the montane cloud forests of Tucumán Province, northwestern Argentina, at an elevation of approximately 2000 m., and discussed the causes of the disappearance from its former range.

2 December 2024: Added where appropriate notations to Dorse and Dorse, 2023, Field Guide Fynbos Fauna, who provided brief accounts, polygon range maps, and photographs for the species of the fynbos biome in the Cape Region of South Africa.

2 December 2024: Added where appropriate notations to Ambrogio and Mezzadri, 2014, Girini d'Italia–Tadpoles of Italy, who provided extensive accounts of the morphology and natural history of the tadpoles found in Italy.

1 December 2024: Added where appropriate notations to Auerbach, 1987, Amph. Rept. Botswana, who provided summary accounts and grid maps for the species of Botswana.

1 December 2024: Added Pristimantis vrazi (Strabomantidae), named by Moravec, Lehr, Wang, and Uvizl in Lehr, Moravec, Wang, and Uvizl, 2024, ZooKeys, 1219: 143–163, from the valley of Río Huatziroqui in the northwestern corner of the buffer zone of the Pui Pui Protected Forest, between 1550 and 1730 m elevation, Distrito Pichanaqui, Provincia Chanchamayo, Región Junín, Peru.

1 December 2024: Modified the range statement for Sphaenorhynchus prasinus (Hylidae) and added a comment noting the publication of Vieira, Vieira, Delfim, França, Alves, Montenegro, and Pereira, 2024, Check List, 20: 1320–1325, who provided a record from the municipality of Santa Rita, Paraíba state, northeastern Brazil, as well as a dot map and niche-model map of the distribution.

29 November 2024: Added a comment under Phytotriades auratus (Hylidae), noting the publication of Lehtinen, Auguste, and Borowsky, 2024, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 112: 365–374, who reported on vocalization and adult and larval natural history.

29 November 2024: Added Leptobrachella dayaoshanensis (Megophryidae), named by Chen, Yu, Meng, and Qin in Yu, Qin, Meng, Li, Peng, and Chen, 2024, ZooKeys, 1219: 105–122, from Dayaoshan National Nature Reserve (DYS), Jinxiu County, Guangxi, China (24.153°N, 110.213°E; elevation 1132 m).

28 November 2024: Added a comment under Anura, noting the publication of Minino and Faivovich, 2024, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 112: 584–591, who reported on the evolution of the paraoral labial tooth rows in anuran larvae.

27 November 2024: Added a comment under Aneides niger (Plethodontidae), noting the publication of Kong, Corl, and Reilly, 2024, J. Fish Wildl. Management, 15: 17–30, who reported on molecular phylogeography and range suitability over time under changing climate regimes. Beside the fact that the future of this particular salamander is at some risk, I (DRF) think that this paper is a conceptual model of how we should be looking at conservation plans in a time of climate change.

22 November 2024: Added Raorchestes asakgrensis named by Naveen, Chandramouli, and Babu in Naveen, Chandramouli, Babu, Ryndongsngi, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 359–37, from Meghalaya, India. On the basis of morphology and molecular evidence, Philautus kempiae and Philautus garo were moved into Raorchestes (Rhacophoridae), as Raorchestes kempiae and Raorchestes garo, and Raorchestes cangyuanensis was placed into the synonymy of Raorchestes kempiae.

17 November 2024: Following Nečas, Kielgast, Chinemerem, Rödel, Dolinay, and Gvoždík, 2024, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 202(4): 1–19, Hyperolius guttatus and Hyperolius ibadanensis were recognized as species and removed from subspecies status under Hyperolius concolor. Hyperolius hildebrandtii is placed in the synonymy of Hyperolius guttatus, and the phylogenetic position of Hyperolius sankuruensis is detailed via molecular markers within a larger discussion of the structure of the Hyperolius concolor group.

17 November 2024: Added Caecilia truncata and Caecilia tesoro (Caeciliidae), both named from northwestern Ecuador by Bock, Arroba-López, Velez-Giler, Moreira, Wiedebusch, Neira-Salamea, Wilkinson, Fuchs, Schönleitner, Rödel, and Ron, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 209–236, who provided a detailed discussion of morphology, osteology, and molecular markers.

15 November 2024: Added Atelopus colomai (Bufonidae), named by Plewnia, Terán-Valdez, Culebras, Boistel, Paluh, Quezada Riera, Heine, Reyes-Puig, Salazar-Valenzuela, Guayasamin, and Lötters, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 237–253, from the Upper Amazonian Basin in Ecuador (Pastaza and Orellana Provinces).

15 November 2024: Modified the range statement for Oedipina elongata (Plethodontidae) and added a comment under that record noting the publication of Rivera-Yurrita and Vásquez-Almazán, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7: 136–139, where new records from Petén and Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, were provided as well as a polygon + dot distribution map of the species.

14 November 2024: Added comments under Hynobius unisacculus and Hynobius quelpaertensis (Hynobiidae), noting the publication of Bae and Borzée, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 449–452, discussed the extirpation of Hynobius sp. (likely one of these two species) from Geomun I., Rep. Korea.

14 November 2024: Modified range statement where appropriate and added comments to the records of Lycasalamandra helverseni, Lyciasalamandra luschani, Pelobates syriacus, Bufo Bufo, Bufotes viridis, Hyla orientalis, Pelophylax bedriagae and Pelophylax cerigensis (both now in synonymy of Pelophylax ridibundus), noting the publication by Cattaneo, Cattaneo, and Grano, 2024, Life on Islands, 2, Volume 2: 38–58, who summarized the ranges in the Dodecanese Islands, Greece.

13 November 2024: Added Tylototriton koliaensis (Salamandridae), named by Poyarkov, Nguyen, Le, Le, Arkhipov, Gorin, Hernandez, and Dufresnes, 2024, Alytes, 41: 56–98, from the northeastern parts of the Viet Bac Massif (Ngan Son Mountain Range), Nguyen Binh and Bao Lac districts of Cao Bang Province of Vietnam

13 November 2024: Restricted the type localities of Pristimantis crucifer (Strabomantidae) and Epipedobates tricolor (Dendrobatidae) to "Porvenir or Hacienda El Porvenir. Administrative landholdings part of the Hacienda Talahua, a landed estate owned by the Cordovez family from 1861 until 1982, located on a mountainous area on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes of Ecuador, between 1500 and 1800 m elevation, Bolívar province, Republic of Ecuador. Coordinates focus point: -1.2630, -79.1175, radius: 2 km", following the discussion by Cisneros-Heredia and Sherwood, 2024, Zootaxa, 5537: 571–576.

10 November 2024: Added Bolitoglossa chiquitica and Bolitoglossa silentium (Plethodontidae), named by Arias, Chaves, Kubicki, and Parra-Olea, 2024, Zootaxa, 5537: 211–233, from Costa Rica. These descriptions are imbedded in an extremely useful discussion of the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) diminuta group with cogent discussion of several outstanding problems remaining.

8 November 2024: Upgraded distribution statements for many species in northeastern Africa (Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia) and added comments noting the publication of Spawls, Mazuch, and Mohammad, 2023, Handb. Amph. Rept. NE Afr., who provided an account for the species in this region addressing identification, natural history, conservation status, and range, including range maps.

6 November 2024: Added Leptobrachella huynhi (Megophryidae), named by Hoang, Luong, Nguyen, Nguyen, Ninh, Le, Ziegler, and Pham, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e136491): 1–18, from Vietnam, Lai Chau Province, Sin Ho District, Elevation: 1630 m; Latitude: 22°20'15.4"N; Longitude: 103°14'32.6"E.

5 November 2024: Modified the range statement for Proceratophrys paviotii (Odontophrynidae) and added a comment under that record noting the publication of Lacerda, Santana, Guimarães, Santos, Araújo, Ghilardi- Lopes, and Mângia, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17990): 1–25, who reported on the 16s mtDNA phylogenetic placement and advertisement call, as well as providing a dot map of the distribution.

3 November 2024: Added comments under Melanophryniscus (Bufonidae) and all of its species, noting the publication of Langone and Lavilla, 2024, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 13: 1–139, who summarized the literature of the species in detail and discussed the nomenclature issues raised, including the change of the name Melanophryiscus dorsalis to Melanophryniscus formosus.

1 November 2024: Added a comment under "Colostethus" ruthveni (Dendrobatidae), noting the publication of Polo-Córdoba, Linares-Vargas, Montes-Correa, Jiménez-Bolaño, Saboyá-Acosta, and Granda-Rodríguez, 2024, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 18: 68–90, who discussed natural history and suggested on the basis of larval and reproductive characters that this "Colostethus" ruthveni sits within Dendrobatinae as the sister taxon of the remainder of Dendrobatinae excluding Phyllobates.

1 November 2024: Added a comment under Incilius valliceps (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Hernández-Guzmán and Arias-Rodriguez, 2024, Ecosistemas y Recursos Agropecuarios, 11 (3: e4121): 1–16, who reported on the karyotype.

30 October 2024: Placed Leptodactylus sertanejo (Leptodactylidae) into the synonymy of Leptodactylus jolyi, following Caramaschi, Pederassi, and Lima, 2024, Bionomina, 38: 43–54.

25 October 2024: Added Brachycephalus dacnis (Brachycephalidae), named by Toledo, Botelho, Carrasco-Medina, Gray, Ernetti, Gama, Lyra, Blackburn, Nunes, and Muscat, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e18265): 1–27, from Projeto Dacnis Reserve, Municipality of Ubatuba, State of São Paulo, Brazil.

21 October 2024: Modified the range statement for Leptodactylus rhodomerus (Leptodactylidae) and added a comment to that record noting the publication of Florez-Lucero, Garzón-Franco, and Alzate-Basto, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7: 53–57, who provided a dot map of the distribution along with an extension to the Arenas Blancas Nature Reserve (6.950048° N, 74.901983° W, WGS84; 1,114 m a.s.l.) in the municipality of Amalfi, east-central Antioquia, Colombia.

21 October 2024: Added Tylototriton soimalai (Salamandridae), named by Pomchote, Peerachidacho, Khonsue, Sapewisut, Hernandez, Phalaraksh, Siriput, and Nishikawa, 2024, ZooKeys, 1215: 185–208, from Doi Soi Malai, Mae Tuen Wildlife Sanctuary, Tak Province, northwestern Thailand, at ca 1,500 m elevation.

20 October 2024: Added Boulenophrys lichun (Megophryidae), named by Lin, Chen, Li, Peng, Zeng, and Wang, 2024, ZooKeys, 1216: 1–15, from eastern Fujian Province, China.

19 October 2024: Added a comment under Bufo bufo (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Bobretsov, Bykhovets, Kochanov, and Petrov, 2022, Curr. Stud. Herpetol., Saratov, 22: 3–16, who reported on the morphometrics in northeastern European Russia.

19 October 2024: Added a comment under Lithobates areolatus (Ranidae), noting the publication of Boycott, Earl, and Shepard, 2024, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 19: 173–188, who, employing call surveys in Louisiana, suggested that the species is very rare or extirpated from historic sites in Louisiana.

19 October 2024: Added comments under Afrixalus dorsalis, Arthroleptis poecilonotus, Conraua derooi, Hylorana albolabris, Hyperolius concolor, Hyperolius fusciventris, Leptopelis spiritusnoctis, Phrynobatrachus plicatus, and Sclerophrys maculata, noting the publication of Leaché, Oaks, Ofori-Boateng, and Fujita, 2024, Evolution, 74: 716–724, who discussed comparative phylogeography across the Dahomey Gap in Ghana.

19 October 2024: Added a comment under Discoglossus galganoi (Discoglossidae), noting the publication of Canós-Burguete and Torrijo-Salesa, 2024, Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 35: 41–44, where the species was reported from the Parque Natural del Prat de Cabanes-Torreblanca, Castellón, Spain, for the first time since 1979.

19 October 2024: Added a comment under Alytes almogavarii (Alytidae), noting the publication of Laorden-Romero, Caballero-Díaz, Sánchez-Montes, Ambu, Dufresnes, and Martínez-Solano, 2024, Amphibia-Reptilia, 45: 357–363, where they reported on a genetically-confirmed introduced population of Alytes almogavarii almogavarii in the neighborhood of Sanchinarro (40.50°N, 3.65°W; municipality of Madrid), central Spain.

19 October 2024: Added comments under Triturus cristatus and Triturus marmoratus (Salamandridae), noting the publication by Arntzen, 2024, Contrib. Zool., Amsterdam, 93: 445–465, who reported on the genetics of their hybridization.

18 October 2024: Added a comment under Nanorana pleskei (Dicroglossidae) noting the publication of Leung, Tang, Yang, Wang, and Hu, 2024, Herpetologica, 80: 234–240, where the authors reported on the distribution and population status on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China.

18 October 2024: Added a comment under Bufo eichwaldi (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Derakhshan, Kami, and Mohammadi, 2024, Zool. Middle East, 7: 210–225, where they reported on morphological and genetic diversity in marginal populations in northern Iran.

18 October 2024: Added a comment under Phytotriades auratus (Hylidae), noting the publication of Jowers, Muñoz Pajares, Weber, Arenas-Castro, Ho, Rivas-Fuenmayor, Borzée, Pyron, Perez-Losada, Downie, Moreno-Rueda, Forcina, and Sánchez-Ramírez, 2024, J. Biogeograph., 51: 2136–2151, who reported on divergence time and methods for its determination.

18 October 2024: Added a comment under Plethodon kentucki (Plethodontidae), noting the publication by Watts, Waldron, and Kuchta, 2024, J. Biogeograph., 51: 2011–2022, where they reported on the landscape biogeography and range limits/edges.

18 October 2024: Modified the range statement of Phrynomedusa fimbriata (Hylidae) and added a comment under that record, noting the publication of Baêta and Pombal, 2024, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 112: 418–428, where a second specimen, from Paraná, Brazil, was reported and misidentifications of Phrynomedusa fimbriata and Phrynomedusa appendiculata were discussed.

17 October 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Cochranella granulosa (Centrolenidae), noting the publication of Durango, Garzón-Franco, Gómez-Mesa, Lozano-Arias, Guayasamin, and Arredondo-Salgar, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 587–595, who reported on geographic variation in advertisement call and provided a range extension to Bahía Solano, Chocó, Colombia.

17 October 2024: Added Pristimantis yanahampatu and Pristimantis ramespateli (Strabomantidae), named by Venegas, García Ayachi, Barboza, and Catenazzi, 2024, Holotipus, 5: 1–19, from northern Peru.

17 October 2024: Modified the range statement for Bufo rubroventromaculatus (Bufonidae) and added a comment to that record to reflect the article by Liu, Hou, Mo, and Rao, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e134392): 1–12, who discussed new records from Guangxi and Yunnan, China, and commented on the possible record from Guizhou, China.

16 October 2024: Added comments and modified range statements, as appropriate, in the records of Togoese amphibians, referencing the useful publication of Segniagbeto, Ohler, Rödel, Luiselli, and Dubois, 2024, Zoosystema, 46: 631–670, who provided accounts for these species, discussing habitat, distribution, conservation status, and identification.

15 October 2024: Added Boophis archeri (Mantelldae), Boophis burnhamae, Boophis janewayae, Boophis kirki, Boophis picardi, Boophis pikei, and Boophis siskoi, named by Vences, Köhler, Hutter, Preick, Petzold, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Glaw, and Scherz, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 643–681, from northern Madagascar. Recognition of these required a substantial redelimitation of Boophis marojezensis.

14 October 2024: Modified the range statement for Scinax fuscomarginatus (Hylidae) and added a comment under that record noting the publication of Boeris, Torres, Schvezov, and Baldo, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7(4: e1014): 1–4, who provided a record for Misiones Province, Argentina.

14 October 2024: Added Micryletta thongphaphumensis (Microhylidae), named by Cao, Suwannapoom, Kilunda, Gao, Wu, Wu, and Che, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1361–1373, from Thong Pha Phum District in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, with revisions of distribution statements for Micryletta immaculata, Micryletta inornata, and Micryletta subaraji.

11 October 2024: Added Scinax ritaleeae (Hylidae), named by Marinho, Faivovich, Haddad, and Araujo-Vieira, 2024, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 112: 398–417, from Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural (RPPN) Estação Veracel, municipality of Santa Cruz Cabrália, state of Bahia, Brazil, 73 m elevation.

10 October 2024: Added Oreolalax adelphos (Megophryidae), named by Nguyen, Tapley, Kane, Tran, Cui, and Rowley, 2024, Zootaxa, 5514: 501–524, from Mount Po Ma Lung, Ban Lang Commune, Phong Tho District, Lai Chau Province, Vietnam, within 100 m of the Chinese border.

9 October 2024: Added Boulenophrys pepe (Megophryidae), named by Wang and Zen in Wang, Lin, Gan, Chen, Yu, Pan, Xiao, and Zeng, 2024, Zootaxa, 5514: 451–468, from the Lianshan Bijiashan Nature Reserve, Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County, Qingyuan City, Guangdong, China.

6 October 2024: Partitioned Noblella (Holoadeninae, Strabomantidae) into Noblella and Phyllonastes, and transferred Psychrophrynella into the synonymy of Noblella (sensu stricto) following von May, Diaz, Ttito, Santa-Cruz Farfan, and Catenazzi, 2024, Diversity, 16 (613): 1–15.

5 October 2024: Redelimited Microhyla berdmorei (Microhylidae) and added the new species Microhyla malcolmi, Microhyla peninsularis, and Microhyla sundaica, named by Trofimets, Dufresnes, Pawangkhanant, Bragin, Gorin, Hasan, Lalremsanga, Muin, Le, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 595–641, as part of a revision of the Microhyla berdmorei complex in southeastern Asia.

4 October 2024: Added Litoria skeliphros (Hylidae), named by Oliver, McDonald, Dahl, Nagombi, and Richards, 2024, Zootaxa, 5514: 559–576, from Gigira Ridge, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea, 2702 m.

4 October 2024: Added Noblella arutam (Strabomantidae), named by Brito-Zapata, Chávez-Reyes, Pallo-Robles, Carrión-Olmedo, Cisneros-Heredia, and Reyes-Puig, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17939): 1–29, from the Comunidad de Río Blanco (3.9086°S, 78.4892°W, 1850 m), Parroquia de Paquisha, Cantón Paquisha, Provincia de Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador. This paper also includes a molecular tree of Holoadeninae. The genus of this species was transferred by implication one day later to Phyllonastes by von May, Diaz, Ttito, Santa-Cruz Farfan, and Catenazzi, 2024, Diversity, 16 (613): 1–15.

2 October 2024: Added Adhaerobufo (Bufonidae), a new genus for former Rhaebo nasicus and Rhaebo ceratophrys, erected by Dias, Phillips, Pereyra, Means, Haas, and Kok, 2024, Zool. Lett., 10(17): 1–26, on the basis of adult and larval morphology and molecular data.

2 October 2024: Added a comment under Holoadeninae (Strabomantidae), noting the publication of Chaves, Hepp, Schrago, and Mello, 2024, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2024.1441373: 1-9, who provided a timetree of the group based on RAG1, TYR, POMC, and COI genes, but because of the sparse taxon sampling does not address the possible nonmonophyly of Noblella, Ischnocnema, and Psychrophrynella suggested by the study of Brito-Zapata, Chávez-Reyes, Pallo-Robles, Carrión-Olmedo, Cisneros-Heredia, and Reyes-Puig, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17939): 1–29.

29 September 2024: Placed Amolops ottorum into the synonymy of Amolops minutus, following the publication of Liu, Nguyen, Le, Pham, Pham, Hou, Zhou, Mo, Li, Li, Luo, Rao, and Li, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e129214): 1–17, who also provided a genetically-conirmed record in adjacent Yunnan, China.

28 September 2024: Added a comment under Ceratophryidae, noting the publication by van der Kamp and Ortega-Andrade, 2024, Frontiers Biogeograph., 17(e132672): 1–14, where the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the entire family was reported,

27 September 2024: Added Neblinaphryne imeri (Neblinaphrynidae), named by Fouquet, Moraes, Recoder, Camacho, Ghellere, Barutel, and Rodrigues, 2024, Zootaxa, 5514: 73–90, from the Serra do Imeri, Parque Nacional Pico da Neblina, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Amazonas state, Brazil (0.470833 N, 65.33889 W, ca. 1800 m elevation).

25 September 2024: Added a comment under Leptobrachella ventripunctata (Megophryidae), noting the publication of Feng, Shen, Mu, Liu, Li, Diao, and Su, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 140–151, which reported on geographic variation in the advertisement call on the Guizhou Plateau, China.

25 September 2024: Added a comment under Tomopterna milletihorsini (Pyxicephalidae), noting the publication by Boulaouad, Bakhouche, Missoum, Harzallah, Ayyach, Belkacem, and Escoriza, 2024, Herpetol. Bull., London, 169: 45–46, that provided records from Timiaouine region of Algeria close to the Mali border (20.45° N, 1.85° E, 584 m.elevation).

25 September 2024: Added Liurana namchabarwa (Ceratobarachidae), named by Yu, Lin, Wang, Jiang and Xie in Yu, Lin, Wang, Zheng, Shi, Wang, Jiang, Song, and Xie, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 234. Holotype: CIB119800, by original designation. Type locality: "Nibiri, 29.3780° N, 95.1548° E, elevation 2 570 m a.s.l.), Medog, Xizang, China". Zoobank Publication registration: 24402F7A-42DC-41B1-9167-44D654CBC964 (as of 15 September 2024, zoobank registration number only available by request from the author; not present in the provided PDF).

24 September 2024: Added Oreolalax yanyuanensis (Megophryidae), named by Hou, Zheng, Yu, Wang, Chen, and Xie, 2024, ZooKeys, 1212: 107–127 from Shuhe town, Yanyuan county, Sichuan Province (27.473443°N, 101.789624°E, 3108 m a.s.l.) China.

20 September 2024: Added a comment under Nyctixalus margaritifer (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Ibnudarda, Farajallah, Perwitasari, and Hamidy, 2024, Raffles Bull. Zool., 72: 110–115, who reported on male acoustic signals.

20 September 2024: Added Theloderma woltersi (Rhacophoridae), named by Ninh, Nguyen, Nguyen, Orlov, Le, and Ziegler, 2024, Raffles Bull. Zool., 72: 252–267, from near Phia Oac–Phia Den National Park, at an elevation of 1,900 m), Cao Bang Province, northern Vietnam.

20 September 2024: Added Zhangixalus faritsalhadii (Rhacophoridae), named by Gonggoli, Munir, Kaprawi, Kirschey, and Hamidy, 2024, Raffles Bull. Zool., 72: 219–234m from Mt. Slamet, Kalipagu, Ketenger Village, Baturaden District, Banyumas Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia.

18 September 2024: Added Cacosternum cederbergense (Pyxicephalidae), named by Angus, Telford, Ping, and Conradie, 2024, Zootaxa, 5512: 1–21, from the Cederberg, Western Cape, South Africa.

16 September 2024: Added Phyllobates samperi and Phyllobates bezosi (Dendrobatidae), both from western Colombia, named by Amézquita, Vargas-Salinas, Ramos, Palacios-Rodríguez, Salazar, Quiroz, Bolívar-García, Galindo-Uribe, and Mazariegos-H., 2024, ZooKeys, 1212: 217–240, who reported on molecular phylogenetics and provided dot maps of the distribution of the species within the genus.

16 September 2024: Added a comment under Physalaemus albifrons (Leptodactylidae), noting the publication of Almeida, Wachlevski, Soares, and Passos, 2024, J. Nat. Hist., London, 58: 1585–1595, who reported on the advertisement call and its energetics.

16 September 2024: Added comment under Cycloramphus dubius and Cycloramphus boraceiensis (Cycloramphidae), noting the publication of de Sá, Akopyan, Santana, Haddad, and Zamudio, 2024, Ecol. Evol., 14(e70262): 1–18, who reported on morphological and genetic introgression along the contact zone.

15 September 2024: Added comments under Cynops, Hypselotriton, Laotriton, Pachytriton, and Paramesotriton (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Shen, Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, Rao, Yoshikawa, Tominaga, and Sanamxay, 2024, Zool. Res. Divers. Conserv., 1: 191–200, who discussed the phylogenetics, morpholological and molecular evolution, and biogeography of the Asian salamandrids.

3 September 2024: Added a comment under Vitreorana franciscana (Centrolenidae), noting the publication of Maffei, Moya, Sousa, and Morais, 2024, Check List, 20: 1041–1045, who provided a new eastern-most record in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and summarized knowledge of its distribution, including a dot and polygon map.

1 September 2024: Added Adenomera cantitata (Leptodactylidae), named by Cassini, Carvalho, Taucce, Haddad, and Solé, 2024, Herpetologica, 80: 275–290, from São Paul (state), Brazil.

31 August 2024: Added Limnonectes abanghamidi, Limnonectes barioensis, Limnonectes batulawensis, Limnonectes lambirensis, Limnonectes lanjakensis, Limnonectes paginatanensis, Limnonectes paulyambuni, Limnonectes penerisanensis, Limnonectes separatus, and Limnonectes tawauensis (Dicroglossidae), all named from East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) by Matsui, Nishikawa, Shimada, Eto, Hamidy, Sudin, Hossman, Gumal, and Vairappan, 2024, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 43: 226–277.

30 August 2024: Added comments under Dendrophryniscus berthalutzae (Bufonidae), Boana cymbalum (Hylidae), Dendropsophus schubarti (Hylidae), Nyctimantis pomba (Hylidae), Ololygon alcatraz (Hylidae), Ololygon obtriangulata (Hylidae), and Proceratophrys belzebul, noting the descriptions of the advertisement calls by Dena, Zornosa-Torres, Bolovon, Paiva, Machado, Prado, Ernetti, Carrasco-Medina, Assis, Lingnau, Llanos, Toledo, and Augusto-Alves, 2024, Bioacoustics, 33: 401–432.

30 August 2024: Added Platypelis saikamavo (Microhylidae), named by Rakotoarison, Vences, Andreone, Crottini, Glaw, Scherz, and Raselimanana, 2024, Zootaxa, 5501: 171–180, from the Tsaratanàna Massif, , northern Madagascar.

30 August 2024: Added comments under Salamandridae, Pleurodelinae, Echinotriton, Laotriton, Paramesotriton, and Tylototriton, noting the publication of Bernardes and van Schingen-Khan, 2024, Tech. Rep.: 1–66, who provided an identification key to these genera and their species.

29 August 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Uperodon assamensis (Microhylidae), noting the publication of Mandal, Lahkar, Basumatary, and Purkayastha, 2024, Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(e21129): 1–2, who reported a specimen from Manas National Park, Assam, India, near the Bhutan border and provided a dot map of the known distribution of the species.

28 August 2024: Added a comment under Leptobrachella bijie (Megophryidae), noting the publication by Li, Zhang, Luo, Liu, Shen, Chen, Su, and Wang, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 90–103, on the osteology of this species.

28 August 2024: Added a comment under Scutiger chintingensis (Megophryidae), noting the publication by Fan, Chen, Cheng, Tang, Sun, Huang, Zhao, Liang, Wang, and Hu, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 73–81, who provided a detailed report on distribution, population size, and potential threats.

28 August 2024: Added Nyctimystes hanwara (Hylidae), named by Richards, 2024, Raffles Bull. Zool., 72: 268–279, from Baia River headwaters, Karius Range, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea (5.9910°S, 142.6767°E, 1,390 m elevation).

27 August 2024: Added Choerophryne frieda and Choerophryne hageni (Microhylidae), named from montane Papua New Guinea, named by Günther and Richards, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 153–167.

26 August 2024: Added Scutiger kanjiroba (Megophryidae), named by Hofmann, Jablonski, and Schmidt, 2024, ZooKeys, 1210: 229–246, from Juphal in the direction to Tripurakot, Dolpa district, Nepal (29°01'N, 82°47'E, 2600 m a.s.l.).

25 August 2024: Modified the range statement and placed a comment under Kurixalus lenquanensis (Rhacophoridae) noting the publication of Pang, Tang, Yu, and Zhou, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e130411): 1–14, who provided the first description a female , provided a genetically-confirmed record from Shilin, Yunnan, China, and provided a dot map of the species.

24 August 2024: Added a comment under Boana ericae (Hylidae), noting the publication of Andreani, Oliveira, Caramaschi, Bastos, and Morais, 2024, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 59: 339–348, who reported on the vocal repertoire and acoustic variation in this species.

24 August 2024: Added a comment under Plethodon chattahoochee (Plethodontidae), noting the publication of Pierson, Camp, Cross, Wooten, Jensen, and Elliott, 2024, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 142: 402–409, who reported on hybrid zones in Georgia with Plethodon teyahalee, Plethodon shermani, and suggested that the species status of Plethodon chlorobryonis needs further investigation.

24 August 2024: Added a comment under Gastrotheca (Hemiphractidae), noting the publication of Folly, Amaral, Silveira, Carvalho-e-Silva, and Dias, 2024, J. Morphol., 285(285:e21766): 1–12, reported on larval crania anatomy of Gastrotheca aureomaculata, Gastrotheca chrysosticta, Gastrotheca elicioi, Gastrotheca espeletia, Gastrotheca gracilis, Gastrotheca litonedis, Gastrotheca marsupiata, Gastrotheca monticola, G. peruana, Gastrotheca pseustes, and Gastrotheca riobambae and discussed the phylogenetic significance of these data.

24 August 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Scarthyla goinorum (Hylidae), noting the publication of Premel, Villette, Ferrieux, and Piolain, 2024, Check List, 20: 1004–1007, who provided a record from the municipality of Ouanary, in the extreme northeastern part of French Guiana, the first for the political unit, and provided a dot map of the species.

24 August 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Kumar, 2024, Zoos' Print J., 39: 28–31, who reported the species from the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Chota Nagpur Plateau, Jharkand, India, a significant northern range extension.

23 August 2024: Added Leptobrachella aurantirosea (Megophryidae), named by Ninh, Nguyen, Le, Nguyen, Quoc, Orlov, Bezman-Moseyko, Le, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2024, Russ. J. Herpetol., 31: 191–224, from and found only in "Vietnam: Ha Giang Province, Cao Bo District, Lung Tao Commune 22.79815° N 104.80859° E, 2300 m a.s.l., in the evergreen forest". The authors also provided a detailed comparison of Leptobrachella species found north of the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand.

22 August 2024: Added comments under Fejervarya (Dicroglossidae), Fejervarya cancrivora, Fejervarya iskandari, and Fejervarya verruculosa, noting the publication of Tanoyo, Reilly, Doughty, Arida, and Iskandar, 2024, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 39: 15–62, where they reported on the molecular phylogenetics, biogeography, and comparative morphology from the populations found in the Lesser Sundas (Indonesia, and East Timor).

22 August 2024: Added a comment under Hyloxalus nexipus (Dendrobatidae), noting the publication of Plewnia, Lötters, and Lobos, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 195–200, who described the tadpole and its geographic variation.

22 August 2024: Added comments under Litoria paraewingi, Litoria ewingii, and Litoria jervisiensis (Hylidae), noting the publication by Mollard, Mahony, and West, 2024, Comp. Cytogenet., 18: 161–174, who described and compared the karyotypes.

22 August 2024: Added comments under Breviceps poweri (Brevicipitidae), Hemisus guineensis (Hemisidae), and Tomopterna adiastola (Pyxicephalidae), noting the publication of Buruwate and Lloyd-Jones, 2024, J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist., 113: 1–18, who provided records from the Niassa Special Reserve, northern Mozambique.

22 August 2024: Added Centrolene elisae and Centrolene marcoreyesi (Centrolenidae), both from Ecuador, named in the paper by Franco-Mena, De la Riva, Vega-Yánez, Székely, Amador, Batallas-Revelo, Reyes-Puig, Cisneros-Heredia, Venegas-Valencia, Galeano, Culebras, and Guayasamin, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17712): 1–46, and who discussed osteology, morphology, morphometrics, calls, and molecular systematics of the Centrolene buckleyi complex.

21 August 2024: Added a comment under Hypselotriton (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Wang, Zeng, Wei, and Lyu, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1121–1134, who discussed the molecular phylogenetics of the species of Hypselotriton, provided a key to subgenus employing morphology and confirmed the paraphyly of Cynops sensu lato (in the sense of including Hypselotriton) with respect to a group composed of Laotriton, Paramesotriton, and Pachytriton. They also recognized three monophyletic subgenera within Hypselotriton: Cynotriton (Hypselotriton oolong, Hypselotriton maguae, Hypselotriton fudingensis, and Hypselotriton orientalis), Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton cyanurus, Hypselotriton wolterstorffi, Hypselotriton chenggongensis, and Hypselotriton yunnanensis), and Hakkatriton (Hypselotriton glaucus, Hypselotriton jiaoren and Hypselotriton orphicus). The authors did not address Hypselotriton chuxiongensis (although implying subspecies status under Hypselotriton cyanurus).

20 August 2024: Added a comment under Neurergus (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Khoshnamvand, Vaissi, Azimi, and Ahmadzadeh, 2024, Ecol. Evol., 14(e70105): 1–13, who reported on phylogenetics of the species, their ecological niche evolution, and biogeography.

16 August 2024: Added a comment under Ololygon skuki (Hylidae), noting the publication of Nascimento, Araujo-Vieira, Dubeux, Marinho, Guedes-Santos, Roberto, Santos, Ávila, Pombal, and Faivovich, 2024, Zootaxa, 5493: 401–418, who reported on morphology, molecular markers, phylogenetic position, range, and call.

15 August 2024: Modified the range statement for Pristimantis ruidus (Strabomantidae) and added a comment, noting the publication of Sánchez-Nivicela, Székely, Salagaje M., Astudillo-Abad, Culebras, Arbeláez Ortiz, and Székely, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1107–1120, who reported on the first specimens collected in over 100 years, their morphology, molecular markers, and natural history.

14 August 2024: Modified the range statement for Micrixalus herrei (Micrixalidae), and added a comment noting the publication of Thomas, Gopalan, and Joseph, 2024, Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(e21567): 1–5, who provided genetically confirmed records in Kerala from north of the Shencottah Gap.

14 August 2024: Added a comment under Dendropsophus minutus (Hylidae), noting the publication of Bolovon and Toledo, 2024, Bioacoustics, 33: 295–310, who reported on repertoire complexity.

14 August 2024: Added comments under Bufotes viridis (Bufonidae), Hyla arborea (Hylidae), and Pelophylax ridibundus (Ranidae), noting the publication of Foufopoulos, Roussos, Kalogiannis, Kalb, Strachinis, and Brock, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 27: 231–256, who discussed the range and natural history of these species on the Sporades Islands in the Aegean Sea of Greece.

13 August 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Rhinella tencrec (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Copete-Mosquera, Restrepo Montoya, and Sánchez-Vialas, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7: 58–62, who provided the southernmost record (Guaudas, Carmen de Atrato, Chocó Department, Colombia, 950 m elevation) and a dot map of the species.

12 August 2024: Added Stefania upuigmae (Hemiphractidae), from the summit of Upuigma-tepui, and Stefania imawari, from the summit of Angasima-tepui, both from Bolívar State, Venezuela, named by Kok, 2024, Zool. Lett., 10(14): 1–21. Both had previously been confused with Stefania satelles.

12 August 2024: Modified the range statement and added comment under Hyperolius baumanni (Hyperoliidae), noting the publication of Segniagbeto, Dekawole, Ayoro, Ketoh, Sinsin, Dendi, and Luiselli, 2024, Eur. J. Ecol., 10: 49–62, who reported the species from Natitingou, northwestern Benin. These authors also provided new records in Benin for Hyperolius igbettensis.

12 August 2024: Added Hypselotriton huanggangensis (Salamandridae), named by Jiang, Huang, Fan, Cheng, Raffaëlli, and Chen in Jiang, Huang, Fan, Cheng, Gong, Cui, Zhang, Lan, Zou, Huang, Raffaëlli, and Chen, 2024, ZooKeys, 1208: 331–346, from the Huanggangshan Mountains (28.72°N, 117.33°E; elevation 84 m), Yanshan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, China.

12 August 2024: Added a comment under Anaxyrus houstonensis (Bufonidae), noting the publication of. MacLaren, Hibbitts, Forstner, and McCracken, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17635): 1–21, who discussed range, morphology, morphometrics, and vocalization in comparison with Anaxyrus americanus charlesmithi.

12 August 2024: Placed Nanorana laojunshanensis (Dicroglossidae) into the synonymy of Nanorana huangi, following Jablonski and Hofmann, 2024, Alytes, 41: 40–48.

12 August 2024: Added Xenophrys yingjiangensis (Megophryidae), named by Wu, Yu, Chen, and Che, from Tongbiguan Provincial Nature Reserve, Yingjiang County, Yunnan, China and nearby Myitkyina, Myanmar.

12 August 2024: Added a comment under Crossodactylus dantei (Hylodidae), noting the publication of Moreira, Lisboa, Dubeux, Neves, Mott, and Nascimento, 2024, Herpetol. J., 34: 176–187, who described larval morphology, vocalization, and 16s mtDNA phylogenetic placement.

12 August 2024: Added Limnonectes cassiopeia (Dicroglossidae), named by Herr, Som, and Brown, 2024, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 112: 270–294, from Luzon, Philippines.

21 July 2024: Added several comments affected by the report of the fauna and their natural history on Ko Pha-ngan I., Surat Thani Province, Thailand, by Cook-Price, Makchai, Hasin, and Suwanwaree, 2024, ZooKeys, 1207: 167–183,.

18 July 2024: Modified the range statement for Polypedates teraiensis (Rhacophoridae) and added a comment, noting the publication of Yu, Kilunda, Wang, Cao, Wu, Duan, Zuo, Zhang, Wu, and Che, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e127029): 1–11, who provided a genetically-confirmed (12S) record (the first for China) from Tongbiguan, Gaoligong Mountain, Yingjiang County, southwestern Yunnan, China, 1167 m elevation, near the Myanmar border.

15 July 2024: Added comments extending from the publication by Xiang, Zhou, Wei, Shu, Gu, and Jiang, 2024, Ecol. Evol., 4(e11687): 1–13, under (1) Megophryidae, noting a molecular tree of relationships; (2) Boulenophrys, noting a map of type localities in China; and (3-4) Boulenophrys sangzhiensis and Boulenophrys tuberogranulata, noting the reports of complete genomes.

14 July 2024: Added a comment under Hylinae, noting the publication of Souza, Melo, Peixoto, Travenzoli, Feio, and Dergam, 2024, Cytogenet. Genome Res., 163: 317–326, and Table S1, who provided a discussion of genomic/cytogenetic organization in South American hylines, with special reference to Bokermannohyla, Boana, Scinax, Ololygon, and Dendropsophus.

14 July 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Boulenophrys baishanzuensis (Megophryidae), noting the publication of Wu, Wu, Chen, Xu, Xie, Tang, Ding, and Ma, 2024, MtDNA, Part B, 9: 209–213, who provided a new locality (Dongshan’ao, 27.72598° N, 119.62780° E, altitude: 1233 m, Jingning County, Zhejiang Province, China) and reported on the complete mitochondrial genome.

14 July 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Sphaenorhynchus canga (Hylidae), noting the publication of Santana, Yves, Pereira Silva, Carvalho, Lima, Costa, and Shepard, 2024, J. Threatened Taxa, 16: 25040–25048, who provided genetically-confirmed (16S) records from the Mantiqueira Mountain range (Bom Jardin de Minas) in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil, as well as providing a dot map of the species' range.

14 July 2024: Added comments under Physalaemus cuvieri (Leptodactylidae) and Dendropsophus oliveirai (Hylidae), noting the publication of Lima, Novo, and Simões, 2024, Biotropica, 56(e13329): 1–13, who reported on geographic variation and its correlates in advertisement call.

14 July 2024: Added a comment under Crossodactylus itambe (Leptodactylidae) noting the publication of Barata, Uhlig, Cortês, Fath, and Griffiths, 2024, Austral Ecol., 49(e13522): 1–12, who discussed the likely range of the species based on the modeled distribution of its microhabitat (a single bromeliad species).

12 July 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Pseudopaludicola murundu (Leptodactylidae), noting the range extension to the Serra da Mantiqueira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, provided by Robert, Souza, Yves, Lima, Costa, and Santana, 2024, Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(e21659): 1-2.

12 July 2024: Added a comment under Quasipaa spinosa (Dicroglossidae), noting the publication of Zhang, Xiang, Li, Zhou, Hou, Huang, and Li, 2024, Comp. Cytogenet., 18: 97–103, who reported the karyotype.

12 July 2024: Modified the range statement for, and added a comment under Polypedates bengalensis (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Rahman, Hasan, Datta, and Sultana, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 391–393, who reported the species from Natima, Maheshpur, Jhineidah District, southwestern Bangladesh (23.3188°N, 88.8937°E, elevation 30 m.

12 July 2024: Added a comment under Rana temporaria (Ranidae), noting the publication of Ilić, Bugarski-Stanojević, Jovanović, Stamenković, Zorić, Paunović, and Crnobrnja-Isailovic, 2024, Animals, 14(1430): 1–16, who reported on phylogeographic substructuring with special reference to the Balkan population.

11 July 2024: Added a comment under Hypogeophis (Grandisoniidae), noting the publication of Sherlock, Streicher, Gower, Maddock, Nussbaum, Oommen, Serra Silva, Day, and Wilkinson, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 198(108130): 1–8, who provided a molecular tree (SNP genomic data), resolving the phylogeny of the group, and concurred with the synonymy of Grandisonia with Hypogeophis.

11 July 2024: Added a comment under Eleutherodactylus nitidus (Eleutherodactylidae), noting the publication of Vázquez-Hernández, Serrano-Serrano, Ramírez-Julián, Hernández-Medina, and Ochoa-Ochoa, 2024, Bioacoustics, 33: 138–156,who reported on geographic variation in advertisement calls.

10 July 2024: Added Centrolene kutuku (Centrolenidae), named by Ron, García, Brito-Zapata, Reyes-Puig, Figueroa-Coronel, and Cisneros-Heredia, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 923–939, from "República del Ecuador, provincia de Morona Santiago, cantón Santiago de Mendez, parroquia San Francisco de Chinimbimi, Cordillera del Kutukú, sector Puchimi, 22 km ESE Santiago de Mendez (2.7901°S, 78.1266°W, 2264 m elevation)". They also provided a densely taxon- and locus-sampled molecular tree of Centrolene, noted that nominal Centrolene huilense from Ecuador is referrable to Centrolene muelleri, and also provided new localities for Centrolene zarza.

9 July 2024: Added comments to relevant species records, noting the recent volume by Borzée, 2024, Continental NE Asian Amph., a recently published book that provides detailed accounts (distribution statements and polygon maps, habitat, ecology, conservation, photos of adults and larvae, identification tools) for northeastern Asia. A very useful volume.

8 July 2024: Modified the range statement for Uperodon taprobanicus (Microhylidae) and added a comment noting the publication of Bandgar, Bandgar, Wahurwagh, and Chandane, 2024, Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(e21685): 1–2, who provided a record from central Maharashtra, India, and a dot map for India.

8 July 2024: Modified the range statement for Pseudophilautus regius (Rhacophoridae) to include the southern Eastern Ghats of India, following Bharath, Dinesh, Karuthapandi, Kunte, Shabnam, Jaiswal, and Jadhav, 2024, Zootaxa, 5477: 219–236.

4 July 2024: Added Xenophrys apatani (Megophryidae), named by Saikia, Sinha, Shabnam, Kharkongor, and Dinesh, 2024, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 124: 21–40, from Pange, Tale Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS), Lower Subansari district, Arunachal Pradesh, India, 1804 m elevation.

4 July 2024: Added Rhacophorus dulongensis (Rhacophoridae), named by Chen, Lee, and Yuan in Lee, Liu, Ouyang, Ai, Liu, He, Huang, Li, Naveen, Yuan, and Chen, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 851–862, from Dulongjiang Village, Gongshan County, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.

3 July 2024: Added Pristimantis asimus (Strabomantidae), a member of the Pristimantis danae group named by Köhler, Glaw, Aguilar-Puntriano, Castroviejo-Fisher, Chaparro, De la Riva, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Gutiérrez, Vences, and Padial, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 565–582, from Amazonian southern Peru into extreme northwestern Bolivia.

3 July 2024: Added Bufo rubroventromaculatus (Bufonidae), named by Orlov, Ananjeva, Ermakov, Lukonina, Ninh, and Nguyen, 2024, Diversity, 16(361): 1–16, from Quan Ba district, Ha Giang Province, Vietnam.

2 July 2024: Added a comment under Plectrohyla guatemalensis (Hylidae), noting the publication of Ballesteros, Díaz-Avalos, Hernández-Ordóñez, and Garro, 2024, Bull. Math. Biol., 86(97): 1–26, who reported on distribution modeling.

2 July 2024: Added a comment under Ameerega berohoka (Dendrobatidae), noting the publication of Santos, Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Oliveira, Andrade, Bittar, and Nomura, 2024, Zootaxa, 5474: 297–300, who reported on larval morphology.

2 July 2024: Added comments under Hyla arborea and Hyla orientalis (Hylidae), noting the publication of Lukanov, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17574): 1–13, who compared their advertisement calls in Bulgaria.

2 July 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment reflecting the first report of Amazophrynella siona (Bufonidae), as well as its advertisement call, from Colombia by Aponte-Gutiérrez, Arcila-Pérez, and Galeano: 431–435.

2 July 2024: Added Litoria kikori and Litoria grinpela (Hylidae), from the southern slopes of the Papua New Guinea's Central Cordillera, named by Richards and Oliver, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 417–433.

22 June 2024: Added Eleutherodactylus coelum (Eleutherodactylidae), named by Hernández-Austria, García-Castillo, and Parra-Olea, 2024, Zootaxa, 5471: 433–450, from the municipality of Gómez Farías, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

20 June 2024: Added a comment under Hynobius yiwuensis (Hynobiidae), noting the publication of Zhang, Sechi, Xie, Dong, and Zheng, 2024, Life, 14(769): 1–8, who reported on mtDNA phylogeography.

19 June 2024: Modified the range statement for Plectrohyla guatemalensis (Hylidae) and added a comment noting the publication of Señaris Vasquez and Sunyer, 2024, Check List, 20: 721–727, who reported specimens from Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua.

18 June 2024: Modified the range statement for Oedipina berlini (Plethodontidae) and added a comment noting the publication of Gómez-Campos, Rodríguez-Naranjo, Salas Ramirez, Hernández-Sánchez, and Abarca, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7: 163–168, who discussed the known range in detail, provided a dot map, and reported the species from El Ceibo in the Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo, Costa Rica.

17 June 2024: Noted the first records for Bolivia of Boana appendiculata (Hylidae), Pristimantis diadematus, and Pristimantis lacrimosus (Strabomantidae), by Ocampo, Aparicio, Bernal Hoverud, Domic, and Wallace, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 371–389, who reported on habitats and distributions of amphibians in the Madidi National Park region of La Paz, Bolivia.

17 June 2024: Added a comment under Calotriton arnoldi (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Talavera, Valbuena-Ureña, Burriel-Carranza, Mochales-Riaño, Adams, Amat, Carbonell, and Carranza, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17550): 1–22, who reported on geographic variation and habitat and named a new subspecies, Calotriton arnoldi laietanus from the western Montseny submassif, Catalonia, Spain.

16 June 2024: Added a comment under Anura, noting the publication of Altig, 2007, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 2: 71–74, who provided an introduction to the morphology of anuran tadpoles.

15 June 2024: Added a comment under Dendropsophus soaresi (Hylidae), noting the publication of Costa, Santos, Silva, Sena, Uchôa, and Andrade, 2024, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 30: 52–62, who reported on larval oral and chondrocranial anatomy and external morphology.

15 June 2024: Added a comment under Boana raniceps (Hylidae), noting the publication of Figueiredo, Máximo, Campos, and Lourenço-de-Moraes, 2024, Herpetol. Bull., London, 168: 1–7, who reported on vocalizations and interactions.

15 June 2024: Added a comment under Caecilia atelolepis (Caeciliidae), noting the publication of Fernández-Roldán and Lynch, 2024, Herpetol. Bull., London, 168: 15–17, who provided notes on natural history and morphology.

13 June 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Eleutherodactylus nitidus (Eleutherodactylidae), noting the publication of Sánchez-Aguilar, Montero-Vachier, Castillo-Sánchez, and García-Vázquez, 2024, Check List, 20: 692–699, who provided a record from Mexico City.

13 June 2024: Added a comment under Plethodon meridianus (Plethodontidae), noting the publication of Radomski, Hargrove, and Kozak, 2024, Herpetologica, 80: 91–96, who reported on habitat preference.

13 June 2024: Added a comment under Hynobius takedai (Hynobiidae), noting the publication of Kameya, Watanabe, Nambu, and Yamazaki, 2024, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 41: 177–184, who reported on mtDNA phylogeography.

13 June 2024: Added a comment under Triturus karelini (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Pourhallaji, Dargahi, Kami, Rastegar-Pouyani, and Abed, 2023, Acta Zool. Bulgarica, 75: 463–468, who reported on mtDNA diversity (low) in Iran.

13 June 2024: Modified range statements and added comments under Agalychnis spurrelli, Hyloscirtus alytolylax, Engystomops montubio, Pristimantis muricatus, Pristimantis nyctophylax, and Pristimantis walkeri, noting the publication of Cruz-García, Zapata-Salvatierra, Sánchez-Nivicela, Chauca, Matecki, and Perez-Correa, 2024, Ecol. Evol., 14(e11401): 1–20, who discussed ranges and provided dot maps and new records from Ecuador.

13 June 2024: Added a comment under Phrynobatrachus auritus (Phrynobatrachidae), noting the publication of Miller, Tasse Taboue, Fokam, Morgan, Zhen, Harrigan, Underwood, Ruegg, Clee, Ntie, Mickala, Mboumba, Fuller, Zimkus, Smith, and Anthony, 2024, Frontiers Conserv. Sci., 5(1366248): 1–12, who reported on geographic trends in genomic variation.

12 June 2024: Added a comment under Cycloramphus boraceiensis (Cycloramphidae), noting the publication of Pedrozo, Botelho, Moroti, Rotenberg, Toledo, and Muscat, 2024, Caldasia, 46: 167–178, who reported on natural history, advertisement call, and larval development.

12 June 2024: Added a comment under Ceratophrys ornata (Ceratophryidae), noting the publication of Deutsch, Bilenca, Zurano, Fonte, Dallagnol Vargas, Kindel, Pittella, Freire, Maneyro, Faivovich, and Agostini, 2024, Perspect. Ecol. Conserv., 22: 35-42, who discussed habitat loss and conservation and provided both a dot map and polygon map of projected suitable range.

11 July 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Allobates gasconi (Aromobatidae), noting the publication of Ferreira, Ferrão, Cunha-Machado, Magnusson, Hanken, and Lima, 2024, Organisms Divers. Evol., 24: 99–118, who reported on advertisement call, phylogenetic position, adult and larval morphology, natural history, and provided a revised diagnosis as well as noting that one of the paratypes (INPA-H 4889) may represent an unnamed species.

11 July 2024: Added a comment under Hymenochirus boettgeri (Pipidae), noting the publication of Gvoždík, Knytl, Zassi-Boulou, Fornaini, and Bergelova, 2024, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 200: 1034–1047, who reported on tetraploidy in the northern Rep. Congo, different from the diploid specimens in the aquarium industry (possiby Pseudhymenochirus boettgeri x curtipes), suggesting that the range of the nominal species requires careful delimitation of lineages.

11 July 2024: Added a comment under Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylidae), noting the publication of Vallejo-Pareja, Stanley, Bloch, and Blackburn, 2024, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 201: 431–446, who discussed Oligocene fossils found in Florida, which suggest ancient over-water dispersal from the Caribbean into North America.

11 July 2024: Added a comment under Frostius pernambucensis (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Dubeux, Nascimento, and Dias, 2023, Zoomorphology, 143: 159–187, who reported on larval morphology and anatomy.

10 June 2024: Resurrected Scinax coerulea from the synonymy of Scinax x-signatus, based on comments provided by Suárez-Mayorga, 2022, Brazil. J. Animal & Environm. Res., 5: 3135.

8 June 2024: Added comments under Amerana muscosa and Amerana sierra (Ranidae), noting the publication of Byrne, Rothstein, Smith, Kania, Knapp, Boiano, Briggs, Backlin, Fisher, and Rosenblum, 2024, Conserv. Genetics, 25: 591–606, who discussed conservation units using multiple genomic methods.

8 June 2024: Added a comment under Anaxyrus microscaphus (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Oyler-McCance, Ryan, Sullivan, Fike, Cornman, Giermakowski, Zimmerman, Harrow, Hedwall, Hossack, Latella, Lovich, Siefken, Sigafus, and Muths, 2024, Conserv. Genetics, 25: 835–848, who reported on genetic connectivity of populations with reference to conservation units.

8 June 2024: Added a comment under Scinax curicica (Hylidae), noting the publication of Santana, Ragalzi, Koroiva, Mângia, Ceron, Leite, and Shepard, 2024, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 142: 58–67, who reported on three geographically-distinct DNA lineages distributed allopatrically among the highlands of the Espinhaço ridgeline.

8 June 2024: Added a comment under Incilius cristatus (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Zolá-Rodríguez, García-Feria, and González-Romero, 2024, Amphibia-Reptilia, 45: 159–170, who reported on population genetics, demographics, and declining genetic diversity of this species.

8 June 2024: Added a comment under Telmatobius rubigo (Telmatobiidae), noting the publication of Akmentins, Gastón, and Boullhesen, 2024, Amphibia-Reptilia, 45: 241–245, who reported on the underwater advertisement call.

8 June 2024: Added a comment under Bufo luchunnicus (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Pham, Le, Pham, Ngo, Luu, Sung, Dau, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2024, Amphibia-Reptilia, 45: 107–112, who provided new records and as well as an estimated potential distribution map overlain by a dot map.

8 June 2024: Added comments under Litoria (Hylidae), Litoria calliscelis, Litoria ewingii, Litoria paraewingi, Litoria sibilus, and Litoria verreauxii, noting the publication of Elliott-Tate and Rowley, 2024, Aust. J. Zool., 72(ZO23026): 1–13, who reported on variation in the advertisement call as part of a comparative study of the species in the Litoria ewingii complex.

8 June 2024: Added comments under Austrochaperina robusta (Microhylidae) and Pseudophryne covacevichae (Myobatrachidae), noting the publication of Groffen, Rush, and Hoskin, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 315–321, who reported on the courtship and advertisement calls.

8 June 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Agalychnis callidryas (Hylidae), noting the publication of Sierra-Serrano, Castillo-Peñarredonda, Diaz-Perez, and Tovar-Márquez, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 291–294, who provided a new record from Sucre, northern Colombia, and provided a dot map for the region.

8 June 2024: Added a comment under Leptodactylus syphax (Leptodactylidae), noting the publication of Sales, Santos, Jorge, Souza, and França, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 271–276, who provided the first records for Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, and provided a dot map for northeastern Brazil.

7 June 2024: Added comments under Salamandra infraimmaculata, Neurergus kaiseri, Neurergus derjugini, Bufo eichwaldi, Bufotes surdus, Bufotes oblongus, Hyla savignyi, Hyla orientalis, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis, Rana pseudodalmatina, and Pelophylax ridibundus, noting the publication of Hosseinian Yousefkani, Shafiei Bafti, Rezazadeh Mashizi, and Moeinadini, 2024, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 20(e242501): 85–89, who discussed the possible effects of climate change on the ranges of these species in Iran and provided current dot maps for that country.

7 June 2024: Added comments under Leptodactylus labyrinthicus (Leptodactylidae), Aquarana catesbeiana (Ranide), Phyllodytes luteolus and Scinax x-signatus (Hylidae), Rhinella diptycha, and Eleutherodactylus johnstonei (Eleutherodactylidae), noting introduced populations in Brazil as discussed by Melo-Dias, Souza-Cruz, Moreira, Curi, Carvalho, Freitas, and Canedo, 2024, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 29: 38–65.

7 June 2024: Placed Epipedobates darwinwallacei Dendrobatidae into the synonymy of Epipedobates espinosai as suggested by López-Hervas, Santos, Ron, Betancourth-Cundar, Cannatella, and Tarvin, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 195(108065): 1–30, as part of their molecular phylogenetic study of species within the genus with special reference to the evolution of color patterns.

31 May 2024: Transferred Exerodonta catracha and Isthmohyla insolita (Hylidae) into Plectrohyla, following the discussion and conclusion of Chaves-Acuña, Boza-Oviedo, Zúniga, Vásquez-Almazán, Chaves, Bolaños, McCranie, and Faivovich, 2024, Am. Mus. Novit., 4016: 1–17.

29 May 2024: Added Pristimantis normaewingae (Strabomantidae), named by Reyes-Puig, Yánez-Muñoz, Libke, Vinueza, and Carrión-Olmedo, 2024, Evol. Syst., 8: 101–118, from Cerro Candelaria, Tunguruhua, Ecuador, with a molecular phylogeny of the Pristimantis anaiae species group.

29 May 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Hoplobatrachus litoralis (Dicroglossidae), noting the publication of Nath, Gurumayum, Lalremsanga, and Khongsai, 2024, Asian J. Conserv. Biol., 13: 12–15, who reported the species from the Senki Valley of the Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India, and detailed its adult morphology and natural history.

29 May 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Amolops truongi (Ranidae), noting the publication by Liu, Mo, Guo, Lu, Wang, Zhang, Rao, and Li, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 149–156, who reported on a genetically-confirmed record from Yunnan Huanglianshan National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China

27 May 2024: Added a comment under Rhacophorus translineatus (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Ahmed, Roy, Begum, Vasudevan, Nishikawa, Asrafuzzaman, and Dutta, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 329–337, who described tadpole morphology, provided a new locality in the Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India, and summarized the know distribution.

25 May 2024: Added a comment under Craugastor mimus (Craugastoridae), noting the publication of Rodríguez-Naranjo, Gómez-Campos, Hernández-Sánchez, and Abarca, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7(e930): 79–83, who reported on the advertisement call.

22 May 2024: Added Gephyromantis ampondo, Gephyromantis bemiray, Gephyromantis fuscus, and Gephyromantis makira (Mantellidae), all named from Madagascar by Vences, Köhler, Scherz, Hutter, Maheritafika, Rafanoharana, Raherinjatovo, Rakotoarison, Andreone, Raselimanana, and Glaw, 2024, Spixiana, München, 46: 297–319.

22 May 2024: Added a new subspecies, Gephyromantis corvus bakilana (Mantellidae), named by Scherz, Rudolph, Rakotondratsima, Ratsoavina, Crottini, Andreone, Glaw, and Vences, 2024, Zootaxa, 5446: 205–220, from , as part of a molecular study of the systematics of the subgenus Phylacomantis.

28 April 2024: Modified the range statement for Teratohyla midas (Centrolenidae) and added a comment noting the publication of Rivas, Muñoz-Saravia, Eversole, Powell, and Moreno-Aulo, 2024, Check List, 20: 559–563, who provided a record from the Department of Pando, Amazonian Bolivia, and discussed the range.

28 April 2024: Added comments under Boulenophrys spinata and Boulenophrys leishanensis (Megophryidae), noting the publication of Shen, Liu, Tang, Peng, Li, Feng, Mu, and Su, 2024, Ecol. Evol., 14(e11318): 1–12, who described and compared their advertisement calls.

26 April 2024: Modified the range statements and added comments under Allobates caeruleodactylus (Aromobatidae) and Osteocephalus cabrerai (Hylidae), noting the publication of Oliveira, Manzatto, and Sousa , 2024 , Rev. Observatorio Econ. Latinoamer., 22: 15, who noted the species in northeastern Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.

26 April 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Rhinella ocellata (Bufonidae) reflecting the publication of Couto, Santos, Godoi, and Miguel, 2024, Cuad. Educ. Desarrollo, 16: 1–7, who discussed the range, provided a dot map, and provided new records from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

26 April 2024: Added a comment under Phyllomedusinae (Hylidae), noting the publication of Almeida-Silva, Servino, Pontes-Nogueira, and Sawaya, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17232): 1–29, who reported on molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the group.

25 April 2024: Added a comment under Hyperolius substriatus (Hyperoliidae) noting the publication of Bittencourt-Silva, Kamouyiaros, Hartigan, and Okamura, 2024, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 73(24009): 1–8, who discussed a method for extracting mtDNA from museum specimens.

25 April 2024: Added a comment under Dendrobates tinctorius (Dendrobatidae), noting the publication by Sabino-Pinto, Mira, Lorioux-Chevalier, and Chouteau, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 243–250, who discussed the change in dorsal pattern throughout the life of individuals.

25 April 2024: Modified the range of Micryletta hekouensis (Microhylidae) to include Vietnam, following the discussion by Nguyen, Liu, Tran, Tran, Trofimets, Dau, and Poyarkov, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 111–121.

17 April 2024: Transferred Pterorana into synonymy of Hylarana (rendering Hylarana khare) and confirmed the synonymy of Frethia, Oreobatrachus, and Phrynoglossus with Occidozyga following the discussion in Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 249–277. Watch this spot.

13 April 2024: Added comments under Salamandrella (Hynobiidae), Salamandrella keyserlingii, and Salamandrella tridactyla, noting the publication of Liu, Duan, Wang, Zhao, and Liu, 2024, PLoS One, 19(2: e0298221): 1–14, who reported on the molecular (COI) variation within and among Salamandrella keyserlingii and Salamandrella tridactyla populations in northeastern China.

13 April 2024: Added comments under Amphibia, Anura, Caudata, and Gymnophiona noting the publication of Serra Silva, 2024, J. Syst. Palaeontol., 22(1: 2321620): 1–21, who discussed the analytical issues and pitfalls involved in understanding the phylogenetics of fossil and living Lissamphibia.

13 April 2024: Added a comment under Allophryne ruthveni (Allophrynidae), noting the publication of Dias, Delia, Taboada, Altig, and Rada, 2024, Sci. Nature, 111(21): 1–22, who reported on larval morphology and reproductive biology.

12 April 2024: Added Amolops yangi (Ranidae), named by Wu, Yu, Lu, Yuan, and Che in Wu, Yu, Lu, Zhang, Dong, Liu, Kilunda, Xiong, Jiang, He, Yuan, and Che, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 343–357, from Yunnan Province, China (26.43744°N, 98.75044°E; elevation 3496 m a.s.l.)"

5 April 2024: Added comments under Microhyla nilphamariensis and Microhyla ornata (Microhylidae), noting the publication of Srigyan, Samad, Singh, Karan, Chandra, Sinha, Vineeth, Das, Thomas, and Suyesh, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e16903): 1–34, who reported on their calls in detail.

5 April 2024: Added Boulenophrys elongata (Megophryidae), named by Zeng, Wang, Chen, Xiao, Zhan, Li, and Lin, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 12–21, from Mt. Lianhua, Huidong County, Huizhou City, Guangdong, China".

5 April 2024: Added Brachytarsophrys wenshanensis (Megophryidae), named by Hem Huang, Li, Chen, and Yuan in He, Ai, Huang, Li, Liu, Lan, Chen, and Yuan, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 22_30, from Xiaoqiaogou District, Wenshan National Nature Reserve, Xichou County, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (23˚22′7.26″N, 104˚47′18.95″E, 1470.64 m a.s.l.)". Not Zoobank registered so taxonomic act will take the date of the appearance of the paper-published version (currently unknown, DRF).

2 April 2024: Added Pyxicephalus beytelli (Pyxicephalidae), named by Du Preez, Netherlands, Rödel, and Channing, 2024, Afr. J. Herpetol., 73: 61–89, from Khaudum National Park, Namibia, but known from Western Botswana, north-eastern Namibia, south-western Zambia, and southern Angola

2 April 2024: Added comments under Phrynomantis bifasciatus and Phrynomantis affinis (Microhylidae), noting the publication of Becker and Channing, 2024, Afr. J. Herpetol., 73: 105–117, who described the advertisement calls, provided range extensions, and dot and polygon distribution maps.

1 April 2024: Added a comment under Odonotphrynus americanus (Odontophrynidae), noting the publication of Souza, Neves Micalichen, Rocha, and Noleto, 2023, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 18: 61–67, who discussed the polyploidy (4N) of this species, its possible process of diploidization, and the reports of 2N and 3N (hybrid) individuals from Brazil and Argentina.

1 April 2024: Added comments under Leptodactylus latinasus and Physalaemus albonotatus (Leptodactylidae), noting the publication of Acosta, Alvarez, Figueira, Castro Cavicchini, Vera, Cruz, and Nuñez, 2024, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 72(e53860): 1–17, who reported on projected changes, via niche modeling, in range due to climate change.

31 March 2024: Added a comment under Hyla orientalis (Hylidae), noting the publication of Litvinchuk, Grishanov, Grishanova, and Skorinov, 2024, Russ. J. Herpetol., 31: 24–30, who reported on a range shift over the last 80 years in the Kaliningrad region of western Russia, presumably due to climate warming.

31 March 2024: Added comments under Bufotes baturae and Bufotes pewzowi (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Kidov, Ivolga, Kondratova, and Kidova, 2023, Curr. Stud. Herpetol., Saratov, 23: 27–35, who provided a morphometric comparison of the triploid Bufotes baturae with the diploid Bufotes pewzowi.

31 March 2024: Added Rhinella kumanday (Bufonidae), named by Caicedo-Martínez, Henao-Osorio, Arias-Monsalve, Rojas-Morales, Ossa-López, Rivera-Páez, and Ramírez-Chaves, 2024, ZooKeys, 1196: 149–175, from the Cordillera Central of Colombia.

28 March 2024: Added comments under Rana coreana, Rana huanrenensis, and Rana uenoi (Ranidae), noting the publication of Jung, Choi, Suh, and Do, 2024, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 43: 135–147, who discussed the current and expected ranges under climate change within Rep. Korea.

28 March 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Desmognathus amphileucus (Plethodontidae) noting the publication of Hutcheson, Pierson, and Maerz, 2024, Southeast. Nat., 23: 29–42, who reported a possibly introduced population in the Broad River drainage of Madison County, Georgia, USA, as part of a natural history study.

28 March 2024: Added comments unf Hylarana latouchii, Odorrana tianmuii (Ranidae), Polypedates braueri, and Zhangixalus dennysi (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Kohler, Zhang, Messenger, An, Ghosh, Othman, Wang, Amin, Prasad, Wu, and Borzée, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 85–93, who provided new records from Jiangsu, China, as well as a dot maps for the species ranges.

28 March 2024: Added many comments noting the publication of Vicente-Ferreira, Nascimento, Batista, Kardush, Reyes, and Garey, 2024, Biota Neotrop., 24(1: e20231526): 1–17, who provided records from the Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista, Paraná, southern Brazil (adjacent to the Paraguay border), as well as providing identification keys to these species based on larval and adult morphology. See Rhinella diptycha (Bufonidae), Boana albopunctata, Boana raniceps, Dendropsophus minutus, Dendropsophus nanus, Ololygon berthae, Scinax fuscovarius, Scinax granulatus, Scinax squalirostris, Trachycephalus "vermiculatus" (Hylidae), Elachistocleis bicolor (Microhylidae), Leptodactylus elenae, Leptodactylus fuscus, Leptodactylus plaumanni, Leptodactylus luctator, Leptodactylus podicipinus, Physalaemus cuvieri (Leptodactylidae), Odontophrynus reigi, and Proceratophrys avelinoi (Odontophrynidae).

28 March 2024: Added a comment under Boana caiapo (Hylidae), noting the publication of Dias-Silva, Souza, Fadel, Adams, Bühler, and Pereira Silva, 2023, Acta Biol. Colombiana, 28: 540–543, who provided new records from Aragarças Municipality, Goiás, and Cocalinho Municipality, Mato Grosso, Brazil, provided a dot map of distribution, and discussed the range and conservation proposals.

27 March 2024: Added comments under Triturus, Triturus marmoratus, Triturus pygmaeus, and Triturus rudolfi noting the publicaiton of Kazilas, Dufresnes, France, Kalaentzis, Martínez-Solano, de Visser, Arntzen, and Wielstra, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 194 (108043): 1–11, who reported on molecular phylogeography.

27 March 2024: Added Triturus rudolfi (Salamandridae), named by Arntzen, 2024, Contrib. Zool., Amsterdam: 1–23, from Lagoa Seca, Valado dos Frades, Portugal. The species was previously confused with Triturus pygmaeus.

27 March 2024: Added a comment under Calyptocephalella gayi (Calyptocephalellidae), noting the publication of Contardo and Labra-Lillo, 2024, Conserv. Sci. Practice, 2024(e13106): 1–17, who provided a dot map, modeled the distribution, and discussed the conservation priorities.

26 March 2024: Added a comment under Fejervarya kawamurai (Dicroglossidae), noting the publication of Takahashi and Sakyo, 2024, Nat. Hist. Rep. Kanagawa, 45: 31–37, who discussed the possible introduction to various sites in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

26 March 2024: Added a comment under Pseudopaludicola motorzinho (Leptodactylidae), noting the publication of Cavalheri, Ceron, Carrillo, Neves, and Santana, 2023, Southwest. Nat., 67: 283–290, who reported on ecological niche modeling, its range (including a dot map), and advertisement call variation.

26 March 2024: Added a comment under Onychodactylus zhangyapingi (Hynobiidae), noting the publication of Zhou, Li, Zhou, Zhou, Cui, and Zheng, 2024, Ecol. Evol., 14(e11132): 1–9, who reported on low mitogenetic variability throughout its range and commented on its conservation.

26 March 2024: Added a comment under Incilius valliceps (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Cubas-Rodríguez, Antúnez-Fonseca, Johnson, Serafim, and Medrano, 2024, Caribb. J. Sci., 54: 47–51, who reported the species from the Bay Islands of Honduras, but could not determine whether it is a natural or introduced populations.

26 March 2024: Added a comment under Atelopus varius (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Barrio-Amorós, Chaves, and Puschendorf, 2021, Reptiles & Amphibians, 28: 1–15, who discussed surviving populations in Costa Rica, identified three distinct morphs, and provided a dot map.

26 March 2024: Added a comment under Sclerophrys regularis (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Sorungbe, Oniya, Akinyele, and Odeyemi, 2023, Sci. Rev., 9: 15–22, who reported on karyotypic and morphometricl variation in Ondo state, Nigeria.

17 March 2024: Started modifying the records of Pelophylax (Ranidae) to conform to the revision and discussion by Dufresnes, Monod-Broca, Bellati, Canestrelli, Ambu, Wielstra, Dubey, Crochet, Denoël, and Jablonski, 2024, Global Change Biol., 30 (e17180): 1–30. This paper is rich in ideas and suggestions for further research. Beyond noting a *lot* of lineages that lack names, the following synonymies for the western group have been included: Pelophylax bergeri -> Pelophylax lessonae bergeri, Pelophylax kurtmuelleri -> Pelophylax ridibundus kurtmuelleri, Pelophylax bedriagae -> Pelophylax ridibundus bedriagae, Pelophylax cypriensis -> Pelophylax ridibundus cypriensis, Pelophylax persicus -> Pelophylax ridibundus persicus, Pelophylax caralitanus -> Pelophylax ridibundus caralitanus, Pelophylax cerigensis -> Pelophylax ridibundus cerigensis, and Pelophylax terentievi -> Pelophylax ridibundus terentievi. Because of the enormity of changes it will take me some time to work through this. Revisions of the eastern group (e.g., Pelophylax plancyi, Pelophylax nigromaculatus, and relatives) have yet to be incorporated.

15 March 2024: Added South Africa to the range of Ptychadena uzungwensis (Ptychadenidae) and added comment to that species record noting the publication of De Lange, Netherlands, and Du Preez, 2023, Afr. J. Herpetol., 72: 33–46, discussed the South African population, its call repertoire, and molecular and morphological identification.

10 March 2024: Added a comment under Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis (Nyctibatrachidae), noting the publication of Priti, Anisha, Thunga, Gururaja, Aravind, and Ravikanth, 2024, Conserv. Genetics, 25: 201–213, who reported on molecular phylogeography.

10 March 2024: Added a comment under Ranitomeya variabilis (Dendrobatidae), noting the publication of Regnet, Lukas, Rödder, Wipfler, and Solé, 2023, Zoomorphology, 142: 477–486, who reported on tadpole external and internal morphology.

7 March 2024: Added Adenomera albarena (Leptodactylidae), named by Martins, Mônico, Mendonça, Dantas, Souza, Hanken, Lima, and Ferrão, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 235–253, from the white sands forests of central Amazonia, Brazil. A model revisionary study, addressing molecular markers, calls, adult and larval morphology and morphmentrics, and which addressed the Adenomera simonstuarti complex, which turns out to be a complex of species.

5 March 2024: Added a comment under Sclerophrys arabica (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Alatawi, 2024, Russ. J. Herpetol., 31: 39–46, who discussed the range in Tabuk Province, northwestern Saudi Arabia.

2 March 2024: Following Streicher, Wiens, Jocqué, García-Vázquez, and Smith, 2023, J. Vert. Biol., 72(23072): 1–24, placed Craugastor nefrens and Craugastor cyabnochthebius (Craugastoridae) into the synonymy of Craugastor campbelli, and placed Craugastor glaucus and Craugastor stuarti into the synonymy of Craugastor xucanebi.

28 February 2024: Placed Dendropsophus luddecki (Hylidae) into the synonymy of Dendropsophus molitor, following Arias-Cárdenas, Barrientos, Pardo-Diaz, Paz, Crawford, and Salazar, 2023 "2024", Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 200: 1–13.

26 February 2024: Added Raorchestes hekouensis (Rhacophoridae), named by Du, Xu, Liu, and Yu, 2024, ZooKeys, 1192: 213–235, from Liangzi, Hekou, Yunnan, China, 1200 m elevation.

26 February 2024: Added Leptobrachella guinanensis (Megophryidae), named by Chen, Li, Peng, and Liu in Chen, Li, Zhang, Liu, and Huang, 2024, ZooKeys, 1192: 257–279, from Shiwandashan National Nature Reserve, Shangsi County, Guangxi, China.

26 February 2024: Added a comment under Ommatotriton nesterovi (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Altunışık and Altunişik, 2023, Biol. Bull., 50: 476–478, who discussed the range and provided the easternmost record from Samsun, Türkiye.

23 February 2024: Added a comment under Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi (Centrolenidae), noting the publication of Rojas-Montoya, López-Aguirre, González-Acosta, and Vargas-Salinas, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7: 60–82, who reported on advertisement, courtship, distress, and agonistic calls).

21 February 2024: Placed Vitreorana uranoscopa into the synonymy of Vitreorana parvula (Centrolenidae), following Zucchetti and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2024, Zootaxa, 5415:: 351–391, who reported on molecular markers, comparative morphology, and advertisement calls to support this synonymy.

20 February 2024: Added Odorrana leishanensis (Ranidae), named by Li, Chen, Su, Liu, Tang, and Wang, 2024, ZooKeys, 1192: 57–82, from Leigongshan Nature Reserve (26.3833°N, 108.1967°E; elevation 1830 m a.s.l.), Leishan County, Guizhou Province, China.

20 February 2024: Added Zhangixalus yunnanensis (Rhacophoridae), named by Pan, Hou, Yu, and Liu, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 183–197, from Mopan Mountain, Xinping County, Yunnan Province, China.

15 February 2024: Added Atelopus calima (Bufonidae), named by Velásquez-Trujillo, Castro-Herrera, Lötters, and Plewnia, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 67–81, from "Colombia, Departamento del Valle del Cauca, Municipio de Yotoco, ca. km 18 on Buga–Buenaventura road, Bosque Reserva Forestal Yotoco (approximately 3°52’ N, 76°25’ W), 1530 m a.s.l."

15 February 2024: Added a comment under Nyctixalus margaritifer (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Ibnudarda, Farajallah, Perwitasari, Hamidy, Prihatini, and Darmawan, 2024, Zootaxa, 5410: 297–300, who reported on the advertisement call and reciprocal calling of the sexes.

10 February 2024: Added Pristimantis paulogabrieli (Strabomantidae), named by Melo-Sampaio, 2024, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 72(23044): 1–19, from the state of Acre, Brazil.

9 February 2024: Rhinella scitula (Bufonidae) placed into the synonymy of Rhinella stanlaii, following Fouquet, Ferrão, Rodrigues, Werneck, Prates, Moraes, Hrbek, Chaparro, Lima, Perez, Pansonato, Carvalho, Almeida, Gordo, Farias, Milto, Roberto, Rojas-Zamora, Ron, Guerra Batista, Recoder, Camacho, Mamani, Rainha, and Ávila, 2024, Syst. Biodiversity, 22 (1, 2291086): Appendix 2. In addition, a large number of comments were added to the accounts of the members of the Rhinella margaritifera group, noting cryptic and not-so-cryptic unnamed species.

7 February 2024: Added Scinax ushiniauae (Hylidae), named by Gagliardi-Urrutia, Araujo-Vieira, Padial, Simões, Faivovich, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 410–420, from the Province of Requena, Department of Loreto, Peru.

3 February 2024: Added a comment under Salamandra lanza (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Giuliano, Seglie, Bergò, Cavalcante, Favelli, Gigio, Bloc, Gaggino, Massara, Pucci, Rastelli, Miaud, and Rizzioli, 2024, Herpetol. J., 45: 35–47, who investigated predictive range models for the species and estimated the time of its extinction.

3 February 2024: Added a comment under Nyctixalus margaritifer (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Hanifa, Septiadi, Hasyim, Fathoni, Prabasari, Erfanda, Rahmadana, Widjanarko, and Kurniawan, 2023, Check List, 19: 971–982, who provided new records from central and eastern Java and also discussed morphological variation.

2 february 2024. Added a comment under Gastrophryne elegans (Microhylidae), noting the publication of Jiménez-Arcos, Calzada-Arciniega, Cortés-Ortiz, Gómez-Hurtado, and Blair, 2024, Zootaxa, 5397: 146–150, who reported on larval morphology from Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico.

2 February 2024: Partitioned nominal Litoria ewingii (Hylidae) into Litoria calliscelis (resurrected) and Litoria sibilus (new species) and a newly delimited Litoria ewingii, following Parkin, Rowley, Elliott-Tate, Mahony, Sumner, Melville, and Donnellan, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 1-37.

1 February 2024: Added a comment under Microhyla eos (Microhylidae), noting the publication of Gupta, Dutta, Roy, and Ahmed, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 43–48, who reported on breeding behavior and advertisement call.

31 January 2024: Added Sphaerotheca varshaabhu (Dicroglossidae), named by Deepak, Dinesh, Chetan Nag, Ohler, Shanker, Souza, Prasad, and Ashadevi, 2024, Zootaxa, 5405: 381–410, from the suburban agro ecosystems of Budumanhalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 850 m elevation.

25 January 2024: Added comments under Bufonidae and Atelopus, noting the publication of Dias and Anganoy-Criollo, 2024, Sci. Nature, 111(3): 1–20, who discussed larval morphological evolution within the family, with special reference to the species of Atelopus.

25 January 2024: Added Odorrana damingshanensis (Ranidae), named by Chen, Mo, Lin, and Qin, 2024, ZooKeys, 1190: 131–152, from the Damingshan National Nature Reserve, Wuming District, Nanning City, Guangxi, China, elevation 1159 m.

24 January 2024: Added a comment under Fejervarya multistriata (Dicroglossidae), noting the publication of Lei, Yan, Jin, Li, Yan, and Liao, 2023, Diversity & Distributions, 30 (e13796): 1–14, who reported on molecular phylogeography and adaptation to climate in southern China.

24 January 2024: Added comments under Hyperolius nitidulus (Hyperoliidae) and Ptychadena bibroni (Ptychadenidae), noting the publication of Ayoro, Nicolas, Segniagbeto, Hema, Ohler, and Kabré, 2023, Afr. J. Ecol., 61: 878–889, who provided dots maps for West Africa and modeled the distributions under the affects of climate change.

24 January 2024: Added comments under Dryophytes japonicus and Dryophytes suweonensis (Hylidae), noting the publication of Yoo, Yoon, Yoo, Kim, Heo, and Kim, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e16728): 1–16, who discussed molecular methods for identifying hybrids between these species.

24 January 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Microhyla taraiensis (Microhylidae), noting the publication of Pratihar and Deuti, 2023, J. Asiat. Soc., Kolkata, 65: 115–118, who provided, pictured, and discussed a record, the first from India, from Nayagram (22°03’ 22N, 87°09’ 07E) in Jhargram District, West Bengal, India.

23 January 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Scinax altae (Hylidae), noting the publication of Barrio-Amorós, Forero-Cano, Stuster, Batista, Canzoneri, and Arias, 2023, Anartia, Zulia, 37: 34–46, who provided genetically-confirmed records for southern Costa Rica, a dot map of the species, and also provided the advertisement call from Panama.

17 January 2024: Added Brachycephalus herculeus (Brachycephalidae), named by Folly, Condez, Vrcibradic, Rocha, Machado, Lopes, and Pombal, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 1–21, from the Parque Estadual do Desengano, vicinity of Estalagem Morumbeca, municipality of Santa Maria Madalena, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

16 January 2024: Added a comment under Dendrobates tinctorius (Dendrobatidae), noting the publication of Ferrão, Dias, Kaefer, Ferreira, Tavares-Pinheiro, Pinheiro-Freitas, and Costa-Campos, 2024, Zootaxa, 5399: 446–450, where the authors reported on tadpole morphology from Matão do Piaçacá, State of Amapá, Brazil.

14 January 2024: Added a comment under Anomaloglossus (Aromobatidae), noting the publication of Vacher, Kok, Rodrigues, Lima, Hrbek, Werneck, Manzi, Thébaud, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 192 (108008): 1–9, who reported on molecular phylogenetics, biogeography, and evolution of life histories.

14 January 2024: Added a comment under Telmatobius fronteriensis (Telmatobiidae), noting the publication of Cuevas, Formas, and Azat-Soto, 2024, Herpetol. J., 34 : 48–54, who reported on larval morphology from the type locality.

14 January 2024: Added a comment under Polypedates braueri (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Siammawii, Malsawmdawngliana, Muansanga, and Lalremsanga, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 25–33, who reported on breeding biology and vocalization in Mizoram, India.

14 January 2024: Modified the range statement and added a comment under Theloderma pseudohorridum (Rhacophoridae), noting the publication of Bayu, Surahmat, Lubis, Surya, and Septiadi, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 21-24, who reported the species from Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, southern Sumatra, Indonesia, and commented on life history.

14 January 2024: Added Amolops dafangensis (Ranidae), named by Li, Liu, Ke, Cheng, and Wang, 2024, ZooKeys, 1189: 33–54, from Dafang County, Guizhou Province, China, 1600 m elevation.

13 January 2024:Added a comment under Xenohyla eugenioi (Hylidae), noting the publication of Andrade, Dias, Almeida, Costa, and Neves, 2024, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 64(e202464002): 1–8, who mapped the species and reported on its current and future predicted distribution.

13 January 2024: Added Leptobrachella dushanensis (Megophryidae), named by Li, Li, Cheng, Liu, Wei, Wang in Li, Wei, Cheng, Liu, Wei, and Wang, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e113427): 1–35, from Dushan County, Guizhou Province, China. They also provided a RAG1 tree of the Leptobrachella species.

13 January 2024: Added comments under Limnonectes hascheanus and Limnonectes limborgi (Dicroglossidae), noting the paper by Zou, Anuar, Low, Hong, Grismer, and Quah, 2024, Zootaxa, 5399: 163–171, who reported on advertisement calls and comparative morphology from the type locality of Limnonectes hascheanus (Penang Island) and other locations on Peninsular Malaysia (Fraser's Hill and Genting Highlands), resulting in the tentative assignment of the mainland populations (Fraser's Hill and Genting Highlands) to Limnonectes limborgi.

11 January 2024: Added Guibemantis ambakoana, Guibemantis rianasoa, and Guibemantis vakoa (Mantellidae), named from east-central Madagascar by Gabriel, Rothe, Köhler, Rakotomanga, Edmonds, Galán, Glaw, Lehtinen, Rakotoarison, and Vences, 2024, Zootaxa, 5397: 451–485.

11 January 2024: Added comments under Calotriton asper and Calotriton arnoldi (Salamandridae), noting the publication of Talavera, Palmada-Flores, Burriel-Carranza, Valbuena-Ureña, Mochales-Riaño, Adams, Tejero-Cicuéndez, Soler-Membrives, Amat, Guinart, Carbonell, Obon, Marquès-Bonet, and Carranza, 2024, iScience, 27(108665): 1–17,who reported on molecular phylogeography and genomic topics.

11 January 2024: Added Mannophryne philidros (Aromobatidae), from the Sierra San Luis, Falcón state, Venezuela, named by La Marca, Mijares-Urrutia, Saavedra, and Gottberg, 2023, Anartia, Zulia: 63–74.

11 January 2024: Added a comment under Melanophryniscus klappenbachi (Bufonidae), noting the publication of Duré, Gonzáles, and Gómez, 2024, Zootaxa, 5397: 598–600, who reported on the advertisement call from the Department of Primero de Mayo, in the Province of Chaco (27°6’5.41”S, 59°2’31.86”W), Argentina.

2 January 2024: Added Boulengerula endauensis (Herpelidae), named by Malonza and Wasonga, 2024 "2023", J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist., 112: 74–80, Endau Hill, Kitui County, Kenya.

2 January 2024: Modified the range statement of Chirixalus trilaksonoi (Rhacophoridae) to include Sumatra to reflect the paper by Herlambang, Laksono, Riyanto, Fauzan, and Hamidy, 2023, Treubia, 50: 111–124, who provided genetically confirmed records from Bukit Baru, Ilir Barat I District, Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, along with descriptions of morphology, advertisement, call, and phylogenetic placement.

2 January 2024: Added comments under Leptobrachium, Leptobrachium abbotti, Leptobrachium hasseltii, Leptobrachium hendricksoni, Leptobrachium ingeri, Leptobrachium nigrops, Leptobrachium montanum, and Leptobrachium waysepuntiense, noting the publication of Fauzan, Farajallah, and Hamidy, 2023, Treubia, 50: 89–110, who reported on morphological differentia among Indonesian species.