We provide a detailed description of the reproduction of the tree frog Agalychnis granulosa, including its advertisement call. Agalychnis granulosa breeds in ponds and the backwaters of streams within primary forests. The breeding season started at the beginning of the wet season and ended two months before the beginning of the dry season. Males called at night in the vegetation around the ponds at a maximum distance of 5 m from the water. The call was composed of a single note with three to seven pulses and a dominant frequency ranging from 1490 to 2101 Hz. Oviposition sites included tree trunks, attached leaves, fallen leaves and bromeliad roots, and ranged in height from 0 to 300 cm above the water. Egg clutches were composed of approximately 45 eggs encapsulated by a transparent gelatinous matrix. Empty egg capsules (4-7 per clutch) were recorded in 36% of the clutches. Great plasticity was observed in the reproductive strategies of A. granulosa, probably reflecting the varying competition and predation at the different life stages of the species.
Siphonops paulensis Boettger, 1892 is a Neotropical siphonopid caecilian widely distributed in South America. Herein, we fill knowledge gaps in the distribution of S. paulensis mostly in northeastern Brazil, including four new state records.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2009v22n4p237O gênero Neotropical Pseustes Fitzinger, 1843 possui ampla distribuição nas florestas úmidas dos países das Américas Central e do Sul. No Brasil, P. sulphureus ocorre nos biomas Floresta Amazônica e Mata Atlântica. Em novembro de 2007 foi obtido o primeiro registro de P. sulphureus para o Estado do Alagoas, no município de Campo Alegre, Nordeste do Brasil. O espécime de P. sulphureus está depositado na coleção herpetológica do Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (MUFAL).
The monotypic genus Macrogenioglottus Carvalho include the species M. alipioi, described from Ilhéus, state of Bahia, Brazil (Carvalho, 1946). Its distribution comprises the Atlantic Forest domain (Ab’Sáber, 1967) in the northeastern and southeastern Brazil (Tiburcio et al., 2008). Abravaya and Jackson (1978) described briefly the tadpole of this species. Therefore, a more detailed description of the larval morphology is needed.
We present the first record of Odontophrynus carvalhoi for the state of Alagoas, Brazil, and a distribution map for this species. This new record represents the nearest location to the Brazilian coast known for this species.
Herein we report the first records of the treefrog Dendropsophus haddadi from the state of Alagoas, northeastern Brazil, and an updated distribution map for this species. All records are restricted to the Atlantic Forest biome. A brief comment on color pattern for the species is also presented.
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