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Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-13
Page range: 93–100
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Larval morphology and advertisement call of Phyllodytes acuminatus Bokermann, 1966 (Anura: Hylidae) from Northeastern Brazil

Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Herpetologia, Área Zoologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, Dois Irmãos, 52171-900 Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.
Bioarch Consultoria e Assessoria Ltda., Av. Fernandes Lima, 1513, Sl. 201, CP H72, Pinheiro, 57057-450 Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil.
Setor de Zoologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas. Avenida Aristeu de Andrade, Farol, 57051-090 Maceió, AL, Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Herpetologia, Área Zoologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, Dois Irmãos, 52171-900 Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.
Lophiohylini tadpole vocalization Parque Nacional do Catimbau Caatinga

Abstract

This paper describes the tadpole and advertisement call of Phyllodytes acuminatus, based on specimens from the Parque Nacional do Catimbau, in the municipality of Buíque, State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil. The overall morphology of P. acuminatus tadpole is similar to that of most species of the genus. The presence of a double row of marginal papillae surrounding all the oral apparatus (except on most of the upper labium which has a dorsal gap) was a characteristic that differentiate P. acuminatus from the other species of the genus. Furthermore, the call structure of the species (unpulsed notes with harmonic structure) fits it in the group composed of P. kautskyi and P. melanomystax.