Story: Frogs
Page 6 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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Amphibian fungal diseases in Far North Queensland
The Frog Decline Reversal Project gives information on the symptoms of chytrid fungus and other frog diseases, as well as background on the source and spread of disease.
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Articles on New Zealand frog species
On Victoria University of Wellington's Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand website, this 159-page bibliography summarises New Zealand frog research papers, with references for sourcing the full articles (PDF, 554 KB).
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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 (PDF, 186 MB).
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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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Requiem for a frog
This transcript is on the University of Canterbury site. It features a 2002 Listener article by Kim Griggs on the discovery of the lethal chytrid fungus in Archey’s frogs.
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.
