Published date: May 03 2018

Journal Title: KnE Life Sciences

Issue title: The Second International Conference on Amphibian and Reptiles Anomalies and Pathology

Pages: 29–35

DOI: 10.18502/kls.v4i3.2099

A I Fayzulinalexandr-faizulin@yandex.ru

I V Chikhlyaev

A K Mineev

A E Kuzovenko

R A Mihaylov

F F Zaripova

A I Popov

O A Ermakov

This paper presents new findings on abnormal specimens of amphibians in the Volga basin. Some anomalies have been noted for the first time: macrophthalmia, eardrum anomalies in marsh frogs (P. ridibundus), the absence of a tympanic membrane in green toads and ectromelia in spadefoot Pallas samples (P. vespertinus).

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