Josh’s Honours research published!

Congratulations to PBG Honours graduate Josh Lemmon, on the publication of his Honours research! The paper - ‘Patterns in the pond: the role of colour, pattern and texture in species delimitation of polymorphic froglet species of southwest Australia’ was published in the Australian Journal of Zoology. The paper was co-authored by PBS’s Brenton (Josh’s supervisor) and Normandie. The paper aims to better understand the morphological differences between several species of local froglets, to assist researchers, biodiversity management organisations, and members of the public to better identify and conserve froglets. This work incidentally helped confirm the distribution and validity of several froglet species, which were previously uncertain.

You can read the paper here

Figure 2 from the paper: Dorsal and ventral photographs of Crinia individuals showing variation of dorsal and ventral surfaces within and between sexes. Panels show: (a) C. glauerti females, (b) C. glauerti males, (c) C. insignifera females, (d) C. insignifera males, (e) C. pseudinsignifera females, (f) C. pseudinsignifera males, (g) C. subinsignifera females, (h) C. subinsignifera males.