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Issue: Vol. 4032 No. 2: 15 Oct. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4032.2.5
Page range: 199–202
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

The tadpole of Hylodes meridionalis (Mertens, 1927), a lotic stream anura from the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

Departamento de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Laboratório de Ecologia de Vertebrados, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UERJ Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracan, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Departamento de Ciências Animais, Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido, Av. Francisco Mota, 572, 59625-900, Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Amphibia Hylodes meridionalis Brazil

Abstract

The genus Hylodes Fitzinger, 1826, comprises 25 species (Sá et al. 2015), of small to medium-sized diurnal frogs, that habit lotic stream habitats of the Atlantic Rainforest domain. Only 17 species of Hylodes genus had its larvae described so far (Costa et al. 2010; Sá et al. 2015). Regarding the osteology, only one species has its chondrocranium described (Bilate et al. 2012). Herein we describe the tadpole of H. meridionalis and its osteology.