Biología reproductiva de Pleurodema guayapae (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae)

Reproductive biology of Pleurodema guayapae (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae).

Pleurodema guayapae is a species that inhabits saline environments and semidesert zones from central Argentina. To date, the knowledge about the reproductive biology of this species is very poor, and our aim is to contribute to its knowledge with the description of some important reproductive aspects. For this, field work was undertaken in an area near to Patquia, La Rioja province. Sampling wa...

A new species of Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro (Leiuperinae: Leptodactylidae: Anura) from the Cerrado of Southeastern Brazil.

A new species of Pseudopaludicola is described from the Cerrado of southeastern Brazil. Pseudopaludicola facureae sp. nov. is diagnosed from the P. pusilla species group by the absence of either T-shaped terminal phalanges or toe tips expanded, and distinguished from almost all recognized taxa currently assigned to Pseudopaludicola (except P. canga, P. giarettai, and P. hyleaustralis) by posses...

Two New Species of Eleutherodactylus (amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Bolivia

-Eleutherodactylus fraudator, new species, E. mercedesae, new species, and E. rhabdolaemus are reported from cloud forests in Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia. Eleutherodactylus pharangobates Duellman is placed as a synonym oíE. rhabdolaemus Duellman. Although the genus Eleutherodactylus is extraordinarily speciose in many areas of northern South America and especially on the Andean slopes, it ...

Helminths parasites of Eupsophus roseus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from southern Chile.

Chromosomal analysis of Physalaemus kroyeri and Physalaemus cicada (Anura, Leptodactylidae)

All the species of Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826 karyotyped up until now have been classified as 2n = 22. The species of the Physalaemus cuvieri group analyzed by C-banding present a block of heterochromatin in the interstitial region of the short arm of pair 5. Physalaemus cicada Bokermann, 1966 has been considered to be a member of the Physalaemus cuvieri species group, although its interspecif...