More links and websites
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Frogs at risk
Alpha is published by the Royal Society of New Zealand. This issue by Phil Bishop has images and information about frogs in New Zealand and elsewhere.
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Frog identifier
On the Department of Conservation’s site, and part of the herpetofauna database, this features the frog species found in New Zealand with photographs, an identification key, and calls of the introduced frogs.
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SRARNZ
The Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand promotes scientific research into amphibians and reptiles.
More suggestions and sources
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Bell, B. D., and others. ‘The recent decline of a New Zealand endemic: how and why did populations of Archey’s frog Leiopelma archeyi crash over 1996–2001?’ Biological Conservation 120 (2004): 193–203.
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Bishop, P. J. ‘Re-introduction of endangered frogs to uninhabited, predator-free, islands in the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand.’ In Re-introduction NEWS, edited by P. S. Soorae, 44–45. Abu Dhabi: IUCN/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group, 2005.
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Gill, B., and T. Whittaker. New Zealand frogs and reptiles. Auckland: David Bateman, 1996.
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McLennan, J. A. ‘Some observations on Hochstetter's frog in the catchment of the Motu River, East Cape.’ New Zealand Journal of Ecology 8 (1985): 1–4.
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Robb, J. New Zealand amphibians and reptiles. Auckland: Collins, 1986.
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Worthy, T. H. ‘Osteology of Leiopelma (Amphibia, Leiopelmatidae) and descriptions of three new subfossil Leiopelma species.’ Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 17 (1987): 201–251.