Morphological, acoustic and genetic identification of a reproducing population of the invasive African clawed frog Xenopus laevis (Anura, Pipidae) recently discovered in Belgium

Using external morphology of adults and tadpoles, osteology from high-resolution microcomputed tomography, vocalization analysis, and DNA sequence data, the identity of a reproducing Belgian population of invasive Xenopus at the current northernmost edge of the distribution of the genus in Europe wa...

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Main Authors: Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Jonathan Brecko, Dimitri Baeghe, Jeroen Venderickx, Ann Vanderheyden, Thierry Backeljau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023-11-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/103702/download/pdf/