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CLAS : Biological Sciences : Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Faculty

Trueb

Linda Trueb - Herpetology: Amphibians
Professor
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Phone: (785) 864-3342
FAX: (785) 864-5335


Area of Interest and Research

  • Redescription of Cretaceous Israeli fossil pipoid frogs of the genus Cordicephalus, with an analysis of phylkogenetic relationships of fossil and extant pipoid anurans.
  • Description of the oldest known pipoid anuran from South America.
  • Comparative development of basal frogs: using ontogeny to elucidate phylogeny. A collaborative project with Anne Maglia and L. Analía Púgener.

 

Representative Publications

1999. The early Cretaceous pipoid anuran Thoraciliacus: redescription, revaluation, and taxonomic status. Herpetologica 55(2):139-157.

1997. Redescription of the Paleogene Shelania pascuali from Patagonia and its bearing on the relationships of fossil and Recent pipoid frogs. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 4:1-41. (co-authored with Ana M. Báez).

1996. Historical constraints and morphological novelties in the evolution of the skeletal system of pipid frogs (Anura:  Pipidae).  Pp. 349-377 in Tinsley, R. C., and H. R. Kobel (eds), The Biology of Xenopus . Zoological Society of London. Oxford:  Clarendon Press

1993. Patterns in cranial diversity among the Lissamphibia. Pp. 255-343 in J. Hanken and B. K. Hall (eds.), The Vertebrate Skull: Patterns of Structural and Systematic Diversity .  Vol. 2.   Chicago, IL:  University of Chicago Press.

1992.  Skeletal development in Xenopus laevis (Anura: Pipidae). Journal of Morphology, 214:1-41. (Co-authored with James Hanken).

1991.  A phylogenetic investigation of the inter- and intrarelationships of the Lissamphibia (Amphibia: Temnospondyli). Pp. 223-313 in H.-P. Schultze and L. Trueb (eds), Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods:  Controversy and Consensus .  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press. (Richard Cloutier, co-author).