Recent Findings of Potentially Lethal Salamander Fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans.

The distribution of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans continues to expand in Europe. During 2014-2018, we collected 1,135 samples from salamanders and newts in 6 countries in Europe. We identified 5 cases of B.

Common occurrence of Sharpey's fibres in amphibian phalanges.

Sharpey's fibres are known mainly as providing anchorage between tooth and the periodontal ligament but they occur also in other types of bones. In the postcranial skeleton these fibres are usually present at the muscle or tendon attachment sites. They were reported in all major groups of extant vertebrates, as well as in putative lissamphibian ancestors-temnospondyls and lepospondyls.

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is present in Poland and associated with reduced fitness in wild populations of Pelophylax lessonae.

The fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a pathogen associated with global declines of amphibians. We used qPCR to detect Bd in 255 samples from 10 Polish populations of 8 species. We found Bd infection in 3 species (Bombina variegata, Pelophylax lessonae, P.

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Eastern slow worm, (Nordmann, 1840).

Here, we present complete mitochondrial genome of the Eastern Slow Worm, (Nordmann, 1840). Mitogenome complete sequence is 17,097 bp long and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes and one control region. mitochondrial genome has the same gene order as other mitogenomes of spp.