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Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-04
Page range: 87–88
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Acoustic characteristics of the advertisement and territorial calls of Phyllodytes tuberculosus Bokermann, 1966 (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae)

Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Av. Transnordestina, Novo Horizonte, 44036-900 Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
Museu de Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, Ondina, 40170-115 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Av. Transnordestina, Novo Horizonte, 44036-900 Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Vertebrados, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20940-040, Brazil
Amphibia Anura Hylidae

Abstract

The treefrog genus Phyllodytes Wagler includes 11 species distributed throughout eastern Brazil (Frost 2011), mostly in the Atlantic Forest biome. Hylids of the genus Phyllodytes are bromeligen (sensu Peixoto 1995) and vocalizations of only four species have been described until now (Lima et al. 2008). Here we describe for the first time the acoustic characteristics of the advertisement and territorial calls of P. tuberculosus Bokermann (Fig. 1A) from its type locality.

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