Advertisement call of two threatened red-bellied-toads Melanophryniscus cambaraensis and M. macrogranulosus (Anura: Bufonidae), from the Atlantic Rainforest, southern Brazil
Author
Caorsi, Valentina
Author
Bordignon, Debora Wolff
Author
Márquez, Rafael
Author
Martins, Márcio Borges-
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-12-09
4894
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4894.2.2
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Melanophryniscus cambaraensis
We collected acoustic data of male calls in three different sample sites in
Rio Grande do Sul
,
Brazil
(
Figure 1
). We recorded
Melanophryniscus cambaraensis
during day and night on
September 18 and 19
of
2012 in
Floresta Nacional de São Francisco de Paula – FLONA SFP
– a conservation unit (
29°25’41.3”S
,
50°23’44.5”W
/
866 m
asl) located in the municipality of
São Francisco de Paula
.
The advertisement call of
Melanophryniscus cambaraensis
from FLONA SFP has an average duration of 18.8 seconds (SD = 6.51) and it is composed of segments A and B (
Figure 3
A–B). Part A is composed of 3–11 single modulated notes, each one composed of one pulse (of 0.02 seconds each), separated by long time intervals of 0.38 seconds (SD = 0.052). Call part B is an extremely long train of unmodulated pulses emitted at a rate of 35.8 pulses per second (SD = 3.1), with short time intervals (Mean = 0.02; SD = 0.002), and lasting from 9–32.2 seconds (Mean = 16.6; SD = 6.8) (
Table 1
). Peak frequency of both parts is quite similar being on average 2.2 kHz in part A (SD = 0.16) and 2.2 kHz in part B (SD = 0.17) (
Table 1
).