Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylus chaquensis: distribution extension and geographic distribution map

Leptodactylus chaquensis Cei, 1950 (Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylinae): extension of the distribution in state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Distribution and morphological variation of Eleutherodactylus mercedesae Lynch & McDiarmid, 1987 (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae) with first record for Peru

We report new distributional information for Eleutherodactylus mercedesae in Bolivia, and provide the first record for Peru based on an adult female. This species, previously endemic to Bolivia, now ranges across about 1000 km in cloud forests on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes from southern Peru to central Bolivia. We provide the first morphological description of females based on two specim...