Amphibian fauna of Pakistan with notes on future prospects of research and conservation

The research on amphibians and their conservation efforts have gained worldwide attention, since the group includes the highest number of threatened and data deficient species when compared with other vertebrates. However, amphibians have long been neglected in wildlife conservation, management decisions, policy making and research agendas in Pakistan.  In this paper, the annotated checklist of the 21 amphibian species of Pakistan, the key to their identification, and detailed discussions on the occurrence of variation in species including the genera Minervarya, and Sphaerotheca are provided. We found statistically significant difference in the morphometric measurements of males but non-significant difference in the females of the two forms (rusty dorsum and dotted dorsum) of S. maskeyi. Some genera, such as Microhyla, Uperodon, Minervarya, Allopaa, Chrysopaa, Euphlyctis, Nanorana and Sphaerotheca that are found in Pakistan need additional data to compare molecular taxonomy and detailed...

两栖动物及其保护研究已受到全球广泛关注，因为相较于其他脊椎动物类群，两栖动物的受威胁物种与数据缺乏物种数量均居首位。然而长期以来，巴基斯坦的野生动物保护、管理决策、政策制定及研究议程中，两栖动物始终未得到应有的重视。本文提供了巴基斯坦21种两栖动物的注释名录、物种鉴定检索表，并对包括侧褶蛙属（Minervarya）与球蟾属（Sphaerotheca）在内的类群的种间变异现象展开了详细讨论。本研究发现，S. maskeyi的两种体色型（锈色背部型与斑点背部型）的雄性个体形态测量数据存在统计学显著差异，而雌性个体则无显著差异。巴基斯坦境内分布的姬蛙属（Microhyla）、狭口蛙属（Uperodon）、侧褶蛙属（Minervarya）、阿洛帕蛙属（Allopaa）、金蟾属（Chrysopaa）、陆蛙属（Euphlyctis）、倭蛙属（Nanorana）以及球蟾属（Sphaerotheca）等类群，仍需补充数据以开展分子分类学及详细研究……