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Issue: Vol. 1353 No. 1: 9 Nov. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-11-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1353.1.4
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 72
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Tadpole and advertisement call of Chiasmocleis albopunctata (Anura, Microhylidae) from Brazil

Laboratório de Taxonomia, Ecologia Comportamental e Sistemática de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil, CEP 38400-902
Laboratório de Taxonomia, Ecologia Comportamental e Sistemática de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil, CEP 38400-902
Amphibia Anura Chiasmocleis tadpole morphology vocalization Cerrado Brazil

Abstract

The advertisement call of Chiasmocleis albopunctata is known from specimens from Bolivia, the tadpole is unknown. Here we present data on tadpole and the advertisement call of a Brazilian population of this species. Tadpoles and calls are from Uberlândia (Minas Gerais, Brazil). Tadpoles are 18.3-21.5 mm TL. Body length about 47% total length; tail triangular, flagellar-tipped. Oral apparatus with two symmetrical semicircular flaps pending over the mouth; flaps border wartyornamented. The tadpoles of C. albopunctata differ in color from that of C. shudikarensis. Different from C. ventrimaculata and C. carvalhoi, tadpoles of C. albopunctata do not possess a pair of parentheses-like mottles between eyes. Calls from the Brazilian population were consistently characterized by nine pulses per notes and two harmonic frequency bands, while calls from Bolivia have 5-8 pulses per note and no harmonics.

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