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Issue: Vol. 3994 No. 3: 3 Aug. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.3.10
Page range: 449–450
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of the advertisement call of Physalaemus albifrons (Spix, 1824) (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae)

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Vertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, Km 3,5, Bairro Meladão, 64800-000 Floriano, PI, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Vertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, Km 3,5, Bairro Meladão, 64800-000 Floriano, PI, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, Km 3,5, Bairro Meladão, 64800-000 Floriano, PI, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, Km 3,5, Bairro Meladão, 64800-000 Floriano, PI, Brasil.
Amphibia Anura Leptodactylidae

Abstract

The genus Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826 is composed by 46 species occuring from north to southern South America, east of the Andes (Frost 2015). Physalaemus albifrons is morphologically differentiated from the other species mainly due to the presence of a second tarsal tubercle located nearly the tibio-tarsal articulation (Bokermann 1966). Physalaemus albifrons occurs in Brazil from north of the State of Maranhão through the states of Piauí, Ceará, Bahia, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Alagoas, being its more austral occurrence in the State of Minas Gerais (Frost 2015). The advertisement call of P. albifrons was described by Bokermann (1966); however, the description needs improvement by applying new technologies, which we provide herein.