Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:04:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-01-01; We describe a new species of egg-brooding frog of the genus Fritziana from the Atlantic Forest in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The new species was historically considered to represent Fritziana goeldii, but is diagnosed by having small snout–vent length for the genus, snout tip mucronate, limbs ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:54:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1999-09-01; We studied the signaling, territorial, and courtship behaviors of the diurnal frog Hylodes asper. Visual and acoustic communication were used during intraspecific interactions involving males, females, and subadults. Hylodes asper has a complex visual communication system, of which foot-flagging is the ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:14:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-12-01; A new species of treefrog is described from Chapada Diamantina in the central State of Bahia, Brazil. The new species is a member of the Bokermannohyla pseudopseudis group, characterized by its small to medium size, head as long as wide, snout short, rounded in dorsal view and nearly truncate in lateral...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:21:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-09-01; Internal larval oral anatomy was used to explore morphological diversity and its contribution to the systematics of the genera Aplastodiscus, Bokermannohyla, and Hypsiboas, belonging to the tribe Cophomantini. Internal oral morphology was examined for tadpoles of 12 species. All species have a large pai...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:47:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-11-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; The genus Brachycephalus is a fascinating group of miniaturized anura...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:31:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-10-01; The process of diversification can be studied at the phylogeographic level by attempting to identify the environmental features that promote and maintain population divergence. Here we investigate diversification in Rhinella granulosa, a Neotropical toad from northeastern Brazil, by testing a range of h...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:34:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-03-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); The molecular bases for the symbiosis of the amphibian skin microbiome with its host are poorly understood. Here, we used the odor-producer Pseudomonas sp. MPFS and the tre...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:39:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-01-01; The spectral characteristics of vertebrate ocular lenses affect the image of the world that is projected onto the retina, and thus help shape diverse visual capabilities. Here, we tested whether amphibian lens transmission is driven by adaptation to diurnal activity (bright light) and/or scansorial habi...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:41:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-01-01; The Neotropical family Hylodidae comprises 46 currently recognized rheophilic Torrent frog species, today classified in the genera Crossodactylus, Hylodes, Megaelosia, and Phantasmarana, all endemic to the Atlantic Forest. Megaelosia and Phantasmarana are distributed along the Serra do Mar and Serra da ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:36:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-12-01; We describe a new species of Cycloramphus of the eleutherodactylus group from the Ilha dos Alcatrazes, southeastern Brazil, with descriptions of advertisement and territorial calls and notes on natural history. Additionally, we describe the advertisement and territorial calls of C. eleutherodactylus. Th...