A World Without Baw Baw Frogs?

Frogs and toads – collectively, the anurans – have been covered on numerous occasion across the history of Tetrapod Zoology though…. Caption: Mount Ballow mountain frog Philoria knowlesi, an east Australian species named in 2022 from the McPherson Ranges on the Queensland-New South Wales border. Named in honour of conservationist Ross Knowles, it’s endangered by habitat loss and deterioration, and potentially by frog-killing fungus. Image: Mahony et al. (2022), original here. …. as usual, the bulk of content isn’t here at version 4 but in the archives. Ever aiming to rescue such material and republish it, I here present an article on a select group of Australian limnodynastid frogs, the highland-dwelling sphagnum or Baw Baw frogs. It was originally published at ver 2 in August 2008, a time when I was collaborating with the EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered) group at ZSL in order to raise awareness of amphibian conservation. EDGE is still active and regularly posting…