Digenetic helminths of Leptodactylus latrans (Anura: Leptodactylidae) and Rhinella dorbignyi (Anura: Bufonidae) in southern Brazil

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

Advertisement call of Rhinella crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) (Anura: Bufonidae) from southern Bahia, Brazil.

The Rhinella crucifer species group is currently composed by six species: Only two species in the group have described calls: R. ornata as Bufo crucifer in Heyer et al. (1990) and R. pombali (Lourenço et al. 2010). The type locality of R. crucifer was informed as being between São Pedro de Alcantara in Santa Catarina and Barra da Vereda in Bahia, but as stated by Bokermann (1966) the type local...

The terrestrial tadpole of Leptodactylus andreae (Anura, Leptodactylidae), a member of the Leptodactylus marmoratus species group.

MARCELO MENIN & DOMINGOS J. RODRIGUES 1 Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Otávio Jordão Ramos 3000, 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais, Av. Alexandre Ferronato 1200, 78557267, Sinop – MT, Brazil Corresponding author. E-mail: menin@ufam...

Calls and calling behavior of the frog Leptodactylus natalensis (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae)

•Leptodactylus natalensis has a prolonged calling season, typically from May to September. Individuals occur in and call from the most forested patch of habitat on the campus of the Universidade Federal de Sergipe. Two kinds of calls were recorded and analyzed•advertisement and chirp calls. The function of the chirp call is unknown. The advertisement call has two carrier frequency bands, known ...

Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of West Indian frogs of the genus Leptodactylus (Anura, Leptodactylidae).

Three endemic species of the aquatic-breeding frog genus Leptodactylus are recognized from the West Indies: Leptodactylus albilabris (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands), Leptodactylus dominicensis (Hispaniola), and Leptodactylus fallax (Lesser Antilles). DNA sequences were obtained from several mitochondrial genes to resolve taxonomic questions involving these species and to provide insights i...