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Issue: Vol. 4508 No. 4: 2 Nov. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-11-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.4.8
Page range: 582–586
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The tadpole of Boana stellae (Anura: Hylidae)

Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Prédio 40, CEP 900619-900, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Prédio 40, CEP 900619-900, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West & 79th St., New York, NY 10024, USA
Amphibia Anura Hylidae

Abstract

Boana stellae (Kwet, 2008) was allocated within the B. pulchella species group and, presumably, is closely related to B. caipora (Antunes, Faivovich, and Haddad, 2008), B. curupi (Garcia, Faivovich, and Haddad, 2007), B. joaquini (Lutz, 1968), and B. semiguttata (Lutz, 1925) due to the similarity of the external morphology of adult specimens (Kwet 2008). Boana stellae is currently only known from adult specimens and embryos from the type locality in Rio Grande do Sul, southeastern Brazil, and from a single locality in Misiones, Argentina (Ferro et al. 2018). Although the embryo morphology has been described in detail (Navarro Acosta et al. 2017; Navarro Acosta & Vera Candioti 2017, as Hypsiboas sp. gr. pulchellus), the tadpole of B. stellae has not been yet described.

 

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