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Issue: Vol. 1397 No. 1: 25 Jan. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-01-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1397.1.2
Page range: 17–24
Abstract views: 132
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Description of the tadpoles of Proceratophrys cristiceps (Anura: Cycloramphidae, Odontophrynini)

Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Área de concentração em zoologia) e Coleção Herpetológica do Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil 58059-900.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Área de concentração em zoologia) e Coleção Herpetológica do Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil 58059-900.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Área de concentração em zoologia) e Coleção Herpetológica do Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil 58059-900.
Anura Cycloramphidae Proceratophrys cristiceps tadpole northeastern Brazil

Abstract

The tadpoles of Proceratophrys cristiceps (Müller, 1884) are described based on specimens collected in a temporary pool at the Estação Experimental de São João do Cariri, in the municipality of São João do Cariri, Paraíba State, in NE Brazil. Tadpoles in stage 39 had a total length of 30.31 mm, a body length of 12.45 mm (corresponding to 41.07% of their total length), were ovoid shaped in dorsal view, slightly depressed in lateral view, and with a dental formula 2(2)/3(1). The morphological characteristics of the tadpole P. cristiceps were compared with other tadpoles of four species belonging to the Proceratophrys bigibbosa group.

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