Advertisement call ofBrachycephalus albolineatus(Anura: Brachycephalidae)

Advertisement and aggressive calls of Ischnocnema oea (Heyer, 1984) (Anura, Brachycephalidae).

Ischnocnema oea (Heyer, 1984) is one of the 10 species recognized within the I. guentheri series (Canedo & Haddad 2012). Within this series, the advertisement call is known for: I. gualtheri (Heyer 1984); I. guentheri (Heyer 1984, Heyer 1990, Kwet & Solé 2005, and Gehara et al. 2013); I. henselii (Kwet & Solé 2005, and Gehara et al. 2013); I. izecksohni (Taucce et al. 2012); and I. nasuta (Heye...

The advertisement call of Dendropsophus tritaeniatus (Bokermann, 1965) (Anura: Hylidae).

BERNARDO FRANCO DA VEIGA TEIXEIRA, ARIOVALDO ANTONIO GIARETTA & ANDRÉ PANSONATO Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Comparada, Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Biologia/FFCLRP. Avenida dos Bandeirantes, 3900, 14040–901, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil Laboratório de Taxonomia, Sistemática e Ecologia Comportamental de Anuros Neotropicais. Faculdade de Ciências Integradas do Pontal,...

The advertisement call of the toad Rhinella humboldti (Bufonidae).

Patterns of advertisement call evolution in toads and chorus frogs

Patterns of evolution in the acoustic signals of two groups of anuran amphibians were examined. Call character matrices for clades of Bufo (Bufonidae) and Pseudacris (Hylidae) were derived from analysis of tape-recorded calls, and these call characters were mapped onto phylogenetic trees based on morphological and biochemical data. It was found that the characters that make up a call evolve at ...

The advertisement call of Adelophryne maranguapensis (Anura, Eleutherodactylidae).

We describe the advertisement call of A. maranguapensis an endangered species endemic to Serra de Maranguape, Ceará, northeastern Brazil (Cassiano-Lima et al., 2011). The monophyletic genus Adelophryne includes eight nominal species and a number of unnamed species of small frogs with direct development, which occur in Amazon, Atlantic Forest, and humid forested mountains of Northeast Brazil (Fo...