Reassessment of the vocal repertoire of a nest-building gladiator frog,Boana pardalis (Anura,Hylidae, Cophomantinae): implications for its diagnosis within the B. faber species group |
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| Authors: | Felipe Silva de Andrade Thiago Ribeiro de Carvalho Lucas Borges Martins Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratório de Taxonomia, Sistemática e Evolu??o de Anuros Neotropicais, Faculdade de Ciências Integradas do Pontal (FACIP), Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU), Ituiutaba, Brazil;2. Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil;3. Programa de Pós-Gradua??o em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazilfelipe_andrade@ymail.com;5. Programa de Pós-gradua??o em Biologia Comparada, Departamento de Biologia/FFCLRP, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Ribeir?o Preto, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | In this study, we re-describe the advertisement and territorial calls of Boana pardalis, carry out an acoustic comparison between the studied species and the other congeners of the B. faber group, and report for the first time the tympanic amplexus for the studied species. The advertisement call of B. pardalis can be used to supplement its diagnosis in the B. faber group based on temporal call traits, e.g. emission rate and emission pattern, as well as the call envelope. |
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| Keywords: | Atlantic Forest Neotropical treefrogs southeastern Brazil tympanic amplexus vocalizations |
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