New records and geographic distribution map of <i>Pseudopaludicola pocoto</i> (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) in Northeastern Brazil

Abstract

&lt;p&gt;Fornecemos novos registros e um mapa de distribuição geográfica atualizado de Pseudopaludicola pocoto Magalhães, Loebmann, Kokubum, Haddad &amp;amp; Garda, 2014 para os estados brasileiros do Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte e Pernambuco. O presente trabalho auxilia a preencher lacunas na distribuição desta espécie descrita para o domínio Caatinga, o que pode ser útil em futuros planos de conservação.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Palavras chave&lt;/strong&gt;: Amphibia, Caatinga, neotrópicos, Semi-árido.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstract&lt;/strong&gt;: We provide new records and an updated geographic distribution map of Pseudopaludicola pocoto Magalhães, Loebmann, Kokubum, Haddad &amp;amp; Garda, 2014 for the Brazilian states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco. The present work helps to fill gaps in distribution of this recently described species in Caatinga Biome, which can be useful in future conservation plans.&lt;br /&gt;Key words: Amphibia, Caatinga, neotropics, Semiarid.&lt;/p&gt;

A new species of Rhabdias (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae), a lung parasite of Pseudopaludicola pocoto (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from north-eastern Brazil: description and phylogenetic analyses

“…Nevertheless, considering the distribution records of the P. pocoto frog, which is mainly found in the Caatinga domain (Silva et al ., 2017) and the results of helminth records associated with amphibians of other species in the biome (Teles et al, 2014, 2015; 2018a, b; Araujo-Filho et al, 2015; Lins et al, 2017; Alcantara et al, 2018; Müller et al, 2018; Silva et al, 2018; Amorim et al, 2019; Oliveira et al, 2019; Madelaire et al, 2020), we suggest the potential endemism of Rhabdias pocoto n. sp. in this biome, and considering the unique morphological character and specificity for the right lung of the host, suggest that the new taxon may have strict specificity for this species of host or host family.…”

“…The genus Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) comprises 25 species widely distributed in South America, from northern Argentina to the east of the Andes in Venezuela, and is associated with open formations close to tropical forests, such as the Chaco, Pampas, Cerrado and Caatinga (Segalla et al , 2019; Frost, 2020) biomes. Pseudopaludicola pocoto Magalhães, Loebmann, Nogueira, Kokubum, Baptista, Haddad & Garda, 2014 is commonly found in the Caatinga biome in Brazil, in the states of Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí and Rio Grande do Norte (Magalhães et al ., 2014; Silva et al ., 2015, 2017), while there is a record of this species in the Atlantic Forest biome in the state of Minas Gerais (Andrade et al ., 2015).…”

Helminth community dynamics in a population of Pseudopaludicola pocoto (Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) from Northeast-Brazilian

“…To date, only two species had their helminth fauna investigated – Pseudopaludicola boliviana Parker, 1927, in which a richness of ten taxa was found, including trematodes, cestodes, nematodes and acanthocephalans (Duré et al, 2004; González & Hamann, 2012), and Pseudopaludicola falcipes Hensel, 1867, in which only the nematode Cosmocerca podicipinus Baker and Vaucher, 1984 was recorded (González & Hamann, 2004; 2009). Pseudopaludicola pocoto Magalhães, Loebmann, Kokubum, Haddad & Garda, 2014 was recently described from Northeast-Brazilian and is widely distributed in the Caatinga biome, however, there are still no studies on its ecology, only on its geographical distribution (Magalhães et al, 2014; Pereira et al, 2015; Silva et al, 2015; Lantyer-Silva et al, 2016 and Silva et al, 2017).…”