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Issue: Vol. 1663 No. 1: 17 Dec. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-12-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1663.1.5
Page range: 59–65
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of the tadpole of Hylomantis granulosa (Anura: Hylidae)

Setor de Zoologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Aristeu de Andrade, Farol, 57021-090, Maceió, AL, Brazil
Setor de Biodiversidade e Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde Universidade Federal de Alagoas, praça Afrânio Jorge, s/n°, Prado, 57010-020, Maceió, AL, Brazil
Amphibia Phyllomedusinae larval forms Atlantic Rain Forest State of Alagoas

Abstract

The tadpole of Hylomantis granulosa (Cruz, 1989) is described from the Municipality of Maceió, State of Alagoas, Brazil. At stage 36 the main characteristic is the huge terminal oral disc, with a single row of marginal papillae, absent anteriorly. LTRF is 2(2)/3(1). The tadpoles of the Hylomantis buckleyi group have some common characteristics that differ from H. granulosa. The large oral disc of H. granulosa can be a putative morphological synapomorphy of the H. aspera group.

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