Xanthism in Phyllomedusidae (Amphibia: Anura), with a review on anuran colour anomalies.docx

We have compiled a list of colour anomalies in anurans by accessing papers published in the journals Herpetological Review, Herpetology Notes, and Herpetological Bulletin, as well as via Internet searches using the keywords ‘color/colour/coloration’, ‘anomaly/anomalies’, and ‘anurans/tadpoles’. Such a procedure was adopted because most of the anuran colour records are anecdotal and thus not published in highly indexed journals. We classified these records within six biogeographic realms (Nearctic, Neotropic, Palearctic, Afrotropic, Indomalayan, and Australasia) according to Dinerstein et al. (2017). Papers on chromatic anomalies in anurans published in the year 2022 were included in our review until the peer review deadline of our article