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Issue: Vol. 3581 No. 1: 12 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3581.1.4
Page range: 86–88
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 1

The giant tadpoles of Megaelosia jordanensis (Heyer, 1983)

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
Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, R. São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 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
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
Amphibia Megaelosia jordanensis

Abstract

The genus Megaelosia Miranda-Ribeiro currently comprises seven species associated with Atlantic Rain Forest of southeastern Brazil. This genus is composed of big-sized diurnal frogs that live associated to lotic streams in forests (Giaretta, et al. 1993). Five out of seven Megaelosia species have its larvae described: M. apuana Pombal, Prado & Canedo; M. boticariana Giaretta & Aguiar; M. goeldii Baumann; M. lutzae Izecksohn & Gouvêa; M. massarti De Witte (Pombal et al. 200; Giaretta & Aguiar, 1998; Lutz, 1930; Nuin, 2003; Giaretta et al, 1993).

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