AmphibiaWeb

AmphibiaWeb

Company type	Synthesizing and sharing information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation
Industry	Herpetology
Founded	2000, California, United States
Website	www.amphibiaweb.org

AmphibiaWeb is an American non-profit website that provides information about amphibians. It is run by a group of universities working with the California Academy of Sciences: San Francisco State University, the University of California at Berkeley, University of Florida at Gainesville, and University of Texas at Austin.

AmphibiaWeb's goal is to provide a single page for every species of amphibian in the world so research scientists, citizen scientists and conservationists can collaborate.^[1] It added its 7000th animal in 2012, a glass frog from Peru.^[2][3] As of 2022, it hosted more than 8,400 species located worldwide.^[4][5]

Beginning

Scientist David Wake founded AmphibiaWeb in 2000. Wake had been inspired by the decline of amphibian populations across the world.^[6][7] He founded it at the Digital Library Project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. Wake came to consider AmphibiaWeb part of his legacy.^[3][8]

Uses

AmphibiaWeb provides information to the IUCN, CalPhotos, Encyclopedia of Life and iNaturalist,^[8] and the database is cited in scientific publications.^{[9][10][11][12]}

References

1. "DATABASE: Down at the Frog Pond". Science. 305 (5690): 1543. September 10, 2004. doi:10.1126/science.305.5690.1543a. S2CID 220104410.
2. All Things Considered (August 2, 2012). "Discovery Of 7,000th Amphibian Celebrated In Song". NPR. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
3. Robert Sanders (July 30, 2012). "Despite global amphibian decline, number of known species soars". University California at Berkeley. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
4. AmphibiaWeb Team. "About Amphibiaweb". AmphibiaWeb. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
5. Diane Schmidtt (2014). Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide (4 ed.). CRC Press. p. 320. ISBN 9781466558571. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
6. Richard Sandomir (May 19, 2021). "David Wake, Expert on Salamanders and Evolution, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
7. Lisa Winter (May 21, 2021). "Salamander Expert David Wake Dies at 84". Scientist. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
8. "AmphibiaWeb Project". Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
9. Yap, T. A.; Koo, M. S.; Ambrose, R. F.; Vredenburg, V. T. (2018). "Introduced bullfrog facilitates pathogen invasion in the western United States". PLOS ONE. 13 (4): e0188384. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1388384Y. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188384. PMC 5901863. PMID 29659568.
10. Richard M. Lehtinen; Frank Glaw; Miguel Vences; Andolalao Rakotoarison; Mark D. Scherz (2018). "Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar". European Journal of Taxonomy (451). doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.451. S2CID 91855421. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
11. Mu L; Zhou L; Yang J (2017). "The first identified cathelicidin from tree frogs possesses anti-inflammatory and partial LPS neutralization activities". Amino Acids. 49 (9): 1571–1585. doi:10.1007/s00726-017-2449-7. PMC 5561178. PMID 28593346.
12. Zhan X; Wu H; Wu H (2020). "Metabolites from Bufo gargarizans (Cantor, 1842): A review of traditional uses, pharmacological activity, toxicity and quality control". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 246. J Ethnopharmacol: 112178. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2019.112178. PMID 31445132. S2CID 208582111. Retrieved July 2, 2020.