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Issue: Vol. 3302 No. 1: 7 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3302.1.5
Page range: 66–67
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

Advertisement and territorial calls of Brachycephalus pitanga (Anura: Brachycephalidae)

Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. C.P. 486, 30161-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Laboratório de Anatomia Comparativa de Vertebrados, Instituto de Biologia da Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Amphibia Anura Brachycephalidae

Abstract

The genus Brachycephalus Fitzinger, 1826 comprises 17 tiny species, eight of which were described only in the past 10 years (Frost 2012). Vocal communication is still poorly studied in this group, and despite its importance for taxonomic studies (e.g. Padial & De La Riva 2009) only two species of the group have had their calls described (Pombal et al. 1994; Verdade et al. 2008).

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    Frost, D.R. (2011) Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.5. Available from http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/ (accessed 27 February 2012)

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    Pombal, J.P. Jr., Sazima, I. & Haddad, C.F.B. (1994) Breeding behavior of the pumpkin toadlet, Brachycephalus ephippium (Brachycephalidae). Journal of Herpetology, 28, 516–519.

    Verdade, K.V., Rodrigues, M.T. Cassimiro, J., Pavan, D., Liou, N. & Lange, M.C. (2008) Advertisement Call, Vocal Activity, and Geographic Distribution of Brachycephalus hermogenesi (Giaretta and Sawaya, 1998) (Anura, Brachycephalidae) Journal of Herpetology, 42, 542–549.