David Charles Cannatella

David Charles Cannatella (1954– ), U.S. herpetologist.

Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Austin, Texas, United States.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Cannatella, D.C. & Duellman, W.E. 1982. Two new species of Centrolenella, with a brief review of the genus in Perú and Bolivia. Herpetologica 38(3): 380–388. JSTOR Reference page.

Gray, P. & Cannatella, D.C. 1985. A new species of Atelopus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Andes of northern Perú. Copeia 1985(4): 910–917. DOI: 10.2307/1445241 Reference page.

Cannatella, D.C. 1986. A new genus of bufonid (Anura) from South America, and phylogenetic relationships of the neotropical genera. Herpetologica 42: 198. JSTOR Reference page.

Ford, L.S. & Cannatella, D.C. 1993. The major clades of frogs. Herpetological Monographs 7: 94–117. DOI: 10.2307/1466954 Reference page.
Green, D.M. & Cannatella, D.C. 1993. Phylogenetic significance of the amphicoelous frogs, Ascaphidae and Leiopelmatidae. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution 5(2): 233–245. DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1993.9523107 Reference page.

Graybeal, A. & Cannatella, D.C. 1995. A new taxon of Bufonidae from Peru, with descriptions of two new species and a review of the phylogenetic status of supraspecific bufonid taxa. Herpetologica 51(2): 105–131. JSTOR Reference page.

Darst, C.R. & Cannatella, D.C. 2004. Novel relationships among hyloid frogs inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(2): 462–475. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.09.003 Reference page.
Pauly, G.B., Hillis, D.M. & Cannatella, D.C. 2004. The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58(11): 2517–2535. DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00881.x Reference page.

Bossuyt, F., Brown, R.M., Hillis, D.M., Cannatella, D.C. & Milinkovitch, M.C. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan frog radiation: Late Cretaceous diversification resulted in continent-scale endemism in the family Ranidae. Systematic Biology 55(4): 579–594. DOI: 10.1080/10635150600812551 Reference page.

Lehtinen, R.M., Nussbaum, R.A., Richards, C.M., Cannatella, D.C. & Vences, M. 2007. Mitochondrial genes reveal cryptic diversity in plant-breeding frogs from Madagascar (Anura, Mantellidae, Guibemantis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44(3): 1121–1129. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.020 Reference page.

Santos, J.C., Coloma, L.A., Summers, K., Caldwell, J.P., Ree, R. & Cannatella, D.C. 2009. Amazonian amphibian diversity is primarily derived from Late Miocene Andean lineages. PLoS Biology 7(3): e1000056. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000056 Reference page.

Guarnizo, C.E., Escallón, C., Cannatella, D. & Amézquita, A. 2012. Congruence Between Acoustic Traits and Genealogical History Reveals a New Species of Dendropsophus (Anura: Hylidae) in the High Andes of Colombia. Herpetologica 68(4): 523–540. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00038 Reference page.
Salerno, P.E., Ron, S.R., Señaris, J.C., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Noonan, B.P. & Cannatella, D.C. 2012. Ancient tepui summits harbor young rather than old lineages of endemic frogs. Evolution 66(10): 3000–3013. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01666.x Reference page.

Colli, G.R., Hoogmoed, M.S., Cannatella, D.C., Cassimiro, J., Gomes, J.O., Ghellere, J.M., Nunes, P.M.S., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Salerno, P.E., Souza, S.M. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2015. Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata). Zootaxa 4000(4): 401–427. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.4.1 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Brown, R.M., Siler, D.S., Richards, S.J., Diesmos, A.C. & Cannatella, D.C. 2015. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 130–168. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12232 Reference page.
Salerno, P.E., Señaris, J.C., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M. & Cannatella, D. 2015. Recent evolutionary history of Lost World endemics: population genetics, species delimitation, and phylogeography in a highly complex sky-island landscape. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82(Part A): 314–323. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.020 Reference page.
Ortega-Andrade, H.M., Rojas-Soto, O.R., Valencia, J.H., Espinosa de los Monteros, A., Morrone, J.J., Ron, S.R. & Cannatella, D.C. 2015. Insights from Integrative Systematics Reveal Cryptic Diversity in Pristimantis Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Upper Amazon Basin. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0143392. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143392 Reference page.

Khatiwada, J.R., Shu, G.-C., Subedi, T.R., Wang, B., Ohler, A., Cannatella, D.C., Xie, F. & Jiang, J.-P. 2019. A new species of megophryid frog of the genus Scutiger from Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, eastern Nepal. Asian Herpetological Research 10(3): 138–157. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.180076 Reference page.

Vasconcellos, M.M., Colli, G.R. & Cannatella, D.C. 2021. Paleotemperatures and recurrent habitat shifts drive diversification of treefrogs across distinct biodiversity hotspots in sub-Amazonian South America. Journal of Biogeography 48(2): 305–320. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13997 Reference page.

López-Hervas, K., Santos, J.C., Ron, S.R., Betancourth-Cundar, M., Cannatella, D.C. & Tarvin, R.D. 2024. Deep divergences among inconspicuously colored clades of Epipedobates poison frogs . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 195: 108065. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108065 Reference page.

Betancourth-Cundar, M., Ríos-Orjuela, J.C., Crawford, A.J., Cannatella, D.C. & Tarvin, R.D. 2025. Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests. ZooKeys 1226: 139–170. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.123803 Reference page.