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"This book has been prepared primarily to enable identification of the 21 known species of frogs occurring in the Solomon Islands and to summarise some aspects of their ecology. This handy guide features a large number of colour photographs to aid in identification and summarized diagnostic features in the case of similar species. Most of the information in the book is based on the authors' own work and observations. The entry for each species includes scientific, common and local name, and notes on description, comparison with similar species, distribution, habitat and conservation status." --Publisher.
This study validates the Solomon Islands taxa (using morphometrics) and explores the biology of the Solomon Islands ranids, with detailed osteological descriptions, external morphology and karyology. Using characters from these data sets a cladistic analysis using parsimony reconstructed a phylogeny of thes frogs...Phylogenetic analysis using maximum parsimony found three equally parsimonious trees. Subsequent character reanalysis (successive weighting) produced one parsimonious tree. The phylogenies indicate multiple invasion events into the Solomon Islands by these ranid frogs and despite the high level of endemism, monophyly is not supported.