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Issue: Vol. 3184 No. 1: 6 Feb. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-02-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3184.1.4
Page range: 64–66
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

The tadpole of Hypsiboas pombali (Caramaschi, Pimenta & Feio, 2004) (Anura, Hylidae)

Laboratório de Animais Peçonhentos e Herpetologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana – UEFS, Av. Transnordestina, CEP 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil
Laboratório de Animais Peçonhentos e Herpetologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana – UEFS, Av. Transnordestina, CEP 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil
Laboratório de Animais Peçonhentos e Herpetologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana – UEFS, Av. Transnordestina, CEP 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil
Anura Hylidae

Abstract

Hypsiboas pombali is, on the basis of its morphological similarity to H. semilineatus (Caramaschi et al. 2004), one of the six species of the clade H. semilineatus group (Faivovich et al. 2005). Here, we described the external morphology of the previously unknown tadpole of Hypsiboas pombali.

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