A comparative study of divergent embryonic and larval development in the Australian frog genus Geocrinia (Anura: Myobatrachidae)

Title: A comparative study of divergent embryonic and larval development in the Australian frog genus Geocrinia (Anura: Myobatrachidae)
Creator: Anstis, Marion
Relation: Records of the Western Australian Museum Vol. 25, p. 399-440
Relation: http://museum.wa.gov.au
Publisher: Western Australian Museum
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: Embryonic and larval development of the seven Geocrinia species across Australia are described and compared. This Australian myobatrachid genus includes three species with terrestrial embryonic development followed by aquatic exotrophic larval development and four species with entirely terrestrial and endotrophic development. Comparisons are made among species within the terrestrial/exotrophic group and the endotrophic group, and between the two breeding modes of each different species-group. Morphological differences are noted between northern and southeast coastal Western Australian populations of G. leai tadpoles. The G. rosea group shares some similarities with the other Australian endotrophic species in the genus Philoria and Crinia nimbus.
Subject: frogs; Geocrinia species; endotrophy; Australia; larval; embryonic
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932971
Identifier: uon:11510
Identifier: ISSN:0312-3162
Language: eng
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