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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2022-04-28
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The tadpole of the red-bellied toad, Melanophryniscus dorsalis (Mertens, 1933) (Anura: Bufonidae)

Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul—UFRGS, Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Animal, Brazil.
LIB, Museum Koenig Bonn, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Adenauerallee 127, D-53113 Bonn, Germany.
Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna—IBEC, Goiânia, Brazil.
Laboratório de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande—FURG, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul—UFRGS, Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Animal, Brazil.
Amphibia Anura Bufonidae

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