caa a22 4500 467881979 CHVBK 20180406152723.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10393-005-0012-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10393-005-0012-6 The Decline of the Sharp-Snouted Day Frog ( Taudactylus acutirostris ): The First Documented Case of Extinction by Infection in a Free-Ranging Wildlife Species? [Elektronische Daten] [Lisa Schloegel, Jean-Marc Hero, Lee Berger, Rick Speare, Keith McDonald, Peter Daszak] Infectious diseases are increasingly recognized as the cause of mass mortality events, population declines, and the local extirpation of wildlife species. In a number of cases, it has been hypothesized that pathogens have caused species extinctions in wildlife. However, there is only one definitively proven case of extinction by infection, and this was in a remnant captive population of a Polynesian tree snail. In this article, we review the potential involvement of infectious disease in the recent extinction of the sharp-snouted day frog Taudactylus acutirostris. Our review of available evidence suggests that a virulent pathogen of amphibians, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, caused a rapid, catastrophic decline of this species, from which it did not recover. We propose that this is the first case of extinction by infection of a free-ranging wildlife species where disease acted as both the proximate and ultimate cause of extinction. This highlights a probable underreporting of infectious disease as a cause of biodiversity loss historically and currently. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 amphibian decline nationallicence conservation medicine nationallicence chytridiomycosis nationallicence Batrachochytrium nationallicence Taudactylus nationallicence extinction nationallicence Schloegel Lisa Consortium for Conservation Medicine, 460 West 34th Street, 10001, New York, NY, USA aut Hero Jean-Marc Griffith University Gold Coast, PMB 50, Gold Coast Mail Centre, 9726, Queensland, Australia aut Berger Lee James Cook University, 4811, Queensland, Townsville, Australia aut Speare Rick James Cook University, 4811, Queensland, Townsville, Australia aut McDonald Keith Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, PO Box 975, 4883, Queensland, Atherton, Australia aut Daszak Peter Consortium for Conservation Medicine, 460 West 34th Street, 10001, New York, NY, USA aut EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/1(2006-03-01), 35-40 1612-9202 3:1<35 2006 3 10393 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-005-0012-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-005-0012-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schloegel Lisa Consortium for Conservation Medicine, 460 West 34th Street, 10001, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hero Jean-Marc Griffith University Gold Coast, PMB 50, Gold Coast Mail Centre, 9726, Queensland, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berger Lee James Cook University, 4811, Queensland, Townsville, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Speare Rick James Cook University, 4811, Queensland, Townsville, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McDonald Keith Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, PO Box 975, 4883, Queensland, Atherton, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Daszak Peter Consortium for Conservation Medicine, 460 West 34th Street, 10001, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/1(2006-03-01), 35-40 1612-9202 3:1<35 2006 3 10393 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer