Xref: utzoo sci.bio:4259 sci.misc:4707 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!migoo From: migoo@cs.mcgill.ca (Miguel ANJOS) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc Subject: About those frogs... Message-ID: <1991Jan8.194732.17291@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 8 Jan 91 19:47:32 GMT Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 43 Originator: migoo@homer First, thanks to everyone who answered my previous article. To anyone who may have been interested in the question I raised about two weeks ago, here are the most significant answers I obtained. Note I took the liberty of performing some editing to reduce the size of the posting, as I myself dislike huge articles :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrew Taylor There are or at least were two species of gastric brooding frog known. They both come from rainforest streams in coastal Queensland (Australia). The first became extinct only a couple of years after being discovered. I think the second still exists in very small numbers. A reference is: "Gastric Brooding Frog" edited by Michael Tyler Croom-Helm(1983). --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Venables Dr. Michael J. Tyler of the Department of Zoology, The University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001 was the main scientist responsible for the discovery of the gastro-incubating frogs (there are more than one species of them) and he has written a short booklet on them. I do not have the title but if you cannot locate it you could either look up his name in a Science Citations Index or write to him directly requesting information. Regards, Bill Venables. -- Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@spam.adelaide.edu.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5412