Pub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p151-159
Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Rufino Santos-Bibiano, Jonathan A. Campbell, Elizabeth Beltrán-Sánchez
Small, secretive snakes comprise an important part of the herpetofauna of the Neotropics and yet most species are known from a handful of specimens due to their habits and relatively inaccessible localities. The Mexican endemic Rhadinella dysmica is the westernmost species of the genus and was described based on a single adult female. Herein we provide information on new specimens, including their morphological variation and hemipenial structure, expand the known geographic range for the species, and comment on the morphological similarities of the “dark-colored” species of the genus.
{"title":"Morphological variation and new distributional records of Rhadinella dysmica (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), with comparisons with other dark-colored congeners","authors":"Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Rufino Santos-Bibiano, Jonathan A. Campbell, Elizabeth Beltrán-Sánchez","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p151-159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p151-159","url":null,"abstract":"Small, secretive snakes comprise an important part of the herpetofauna of the Neotropics and yet most species are known from a handful of specimens due to their habits and relatively inaccessible localities. The Mexican endemic Rhadinella dysmica is the westernmost species of the genus and was described based on a single adult female. Herein we provide information on new specimens, including their morphological variation and hemipenial structure, expand the known geographic range for the species, and comment on the morphological similarities of the “dark-colored” species of the genus.","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42745568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p225-228
S. Thomson
{"title":"Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status","authors":"S. Thomson","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p225-228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p225-228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46195329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p215-217
Rafael Peralta-Hernández, Andrés Perea-Pérez
Necrophilia, also known as necrogamy (Bettaso et al. 2008), thanatophilia (Patel et al. 2016), and Davian behavior (Dickerman 1960), is a form of reproductive behavior in which a living specimen (usually a male) attempts to cop ate it a dead conspecific s a a female). It has been reported in all major extant groups of tetrapods (Caldeira-Costa et al. 2010). Among anurans it has been reported in at least 37 species from six families: Ascaphidae (one species), Bombinatoridae (1), Bufonidae (15), Hylidae (8), Leptodactylidae (1), and Ranidae (11). This list suggests that this behavior occurs more often in frogs with explosive reproduction (see Pintanel et al. 2021 and Costa-Campos et al. 2021 for recent reviews). Necrophilia generally does not result in successful reproduction and may represent a waste of time and energy for the males (reviewed in Marco and Lizana 2002). However, the case of Rhinella proboscidea (Spix, 1824), in which the male can promote the expulsion and fertilization of the oocytes from dead females by compressing their abdominal cavities with his arms, was hypothesized as “functional necrophilia” because it could minimize the losses of both sexes during the explosive reproduction events and favors the strongest and most persistent males (Izzo et al. 2012). ere e provide t e first report of necrop i ia in the common Mexican tree frog Smilisca baudinii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841). This hylid reaches a snout–vent length of 76 mm in males and mm in fema es as a ide and at ead indistinct from the body, and is distinguished from other species by having a row of warts along the lower part of the arm (Lee 2000, Tunstall 2021). Its wide geographic range encompasses several biogeographic provinces, ranging from the extreme southcentral United States to southeastern and southwestern Costa Rica (Lee 2000, Savage 2002, Powell et al. Received 09 June 2021
恋尸癖，也被称为necrogamy (Bettaso et al. 2008)、thanatophilia (Patel et al. 2016)和Davian behavior (Dickerman 1960)，是一种生殖行为形式，其中活的标本(通常是雄性)试图吃掉它死去的同种(如雌性)。在所有现存的主要四足动物群体中都有报道(Caldeira-Costa et al. 2010)。在无尾目动物中，至少有37种被报道，分属6科:蛛科(1种)、弹蝇科(1种)、蟾科(15种)、水螅科(8种)、细趾蛛科(1种)和蛙科(11种)。该列表表明，这种行为在爆炸性繁殖的青蛙中更常见(参见Pintanel et al. 2021和Costa-Campos et al. 2021的最新评论)。恋尸癖通常不会导致成功的繁殖，而且可能会浪费雄性的时间和精力(Marco and Lizana 2002)。然而，在长鼻鼻虫(Spix, 1824)的案例中，雄性可以通过用手臂压迫雌性的腹腔来促进雌性死亡卵母细胞的排出和受精，这被假设为“功能性恋尸症”，因为它可以在爆炸性繁殖事件中最大限度地减少两性的损失，并有利于最强壮和最持久的雄性(Izzo et al. 2012)。在此，我们首次报道了墨西哥普通树蛙Smilisca baudinii的坏死性坏死(dumsamril and Bibron, 1841)。这种水螅体长为76毫米，雄性为76毫米，雌性为76毫米，头部与身体不明显，与其他物种的区别在于手臂下部有一排疣(Lee 2000, Tunstall 2021)。其广泛的地理范围包括几个生物地理省份，从美国的中南部到哥斯达黎加的东南部和西南部(Lee 2000, Savage 2002, Powell等)。收到2021年6月9日
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Pub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p165-179
L. F. Carmo, Suellen de Oliveira Guimarães, Ingrid R. Miguel, Pedro H. Pinna, Daniel S. Fernandes, Manoela Woitovicz-Cardoso
In the present study we monitored a population of Nyctimantis brunoi, a species commonly found in restingas of southeastern Brazil. Field activities were carried out in the Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba (PNRJ), a protected area located in the northern portion of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Specimens were sampled through a complete species inventory. We analyzed 218 individuals, 32 (14.7%) of which have anomalies. Additionally, a subsample of 15 specimens were radiographed to verify the occurrence of skeletal anomalies not externally detectable and to verify if the classification of anomalies attributed by means of external examination are detectable in the osteological structure of the specimen. There are 12 types of anomalies recognized in this population, three of them only detectable through internal investigation (radiography). We verified that most of anomalies externally detectable were correctly classified when compared to the osteological morphology of the radiographed specimens. Thus, in this investigation, the study of external malformations was capable to detect 60% of the types of anomalies. We conclude that further ecotoxicological and epidemiological studies of the population of N. brunoi in the PNRJ are necessary to establish the origins of anomalies in this species.
{"title":"High prevalence of anomalies in Nyctimantis brunoi (Anura: Hylidae) from a restinga protected area in southeastern Brazil","authors":"L. F. Carmo, Suellen de Oliveira Guimarães, Ingrid R. Miguel, Pedro H. Pinna, Daniel S. Fernandes, Manoela Woitovicz-Cardoso","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p165-179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p165-179","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study we monitored a population of Nyctimantis brunoi, a species commonly found in restingas of southeastern Brazil. Field activities were carried out in the Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba (PNRJ), a protected area located in the northern portion of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Specimens were sampled through a complete species inventory. We analyzed 218 individuals, 32 (14.7%) of which have anomalies. Additionally, a subsample of 15 specimens were radiographed to verify the occurrence of skeletal anomalies not externally detectable and to verify if the classification of anomalies attributed by means of external examination are detectable in the osteological structure of the specimen. There are 12 types of anomalies recognized in this population, three of them only detectable through internal investigation (radiography). We verified that most of anomalies externally detectable were correctly classified when compared to the osteological morphology of the radiographed specimens. Thus, in this investigation, the study of external malformations was capable to detect 60% of the types of anomalies. We conclude that further ecotoxicological and epidemiological studies of the population of N. brunoi in the PNRJ are necessary to establish the origins of anomalies in this species.","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48719247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p219-223
Juliana Alves, A. Mônico, T. SILVA-SOARES, Rodrigo B. Ferreira
{"title":"Novel breeding habitat, oviposition microhabitat, and parental care in Bokermannohyla caramaschii (Anura: Hylidae) in southeastern Brazil","authors":"Juliana Alves, A. Mônico, T. SILVA-SOARES, Rodrigo B. Ferreira","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p219-223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p219-223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48653541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p159-164
Santosh M. Mogali, B. A. Shanbhag, S. K. Saidapur
The comparative vulnerability of two co-existing tadpole species (Indosylvirana temporalis and Clinotarsus curtipes) to their common predator, water scorpions (Laccotrephes sp.; Hemiptera: Nepidae), and the importance of refugia in predator avoidance were studied in the laboratory. In a total of 60 experimental trials, 10 tadpoles each of I. temporalis and C. curtipes of comparable body sizes were exposed to water scorpions (starved for 48 h). Thirty trials included refugia while 30 did not. The results of this study showed that in both the absence and the presence of refugia C. curtipes tadpoles fell prey to water scorpions more frequently than I. temporalis tadpoles. A main difference between the two species is the speed of swimming; Vmax of C. curtipes (24.73 cm/s) tadpoles is lower than that of I. temporalis (30.78 cm/s) tadpoles. This is likely to be the reason why more C. curtipes tadpoles were preyed upon than were I. temporalis tadpoles. Predation risk of tadpoles of both species was affected significantly by the presence of refuge sites. The vulnerability of both tadpole species was lower where refuge sites were available. The present study clearly shows that I. temporalis tadpoles avoid predation by water scorpions more effectively than do C. curtipes tadpoles.
{"title":"Comparative vulnerability of Indosylvirana temporalis and Clinotarsus curtipes (Anura: Ranidae) tadpoles to water scorpions: importance of refugia and swimming speed in predator avoidance","authors":"Santosh M. Mogali, B. A. Shanbhag, S. K. Saidapur","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p159-164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i2p159-164","url":null,"abstract":"The comparative vulnerability of two co-existing tadpole species (Indosylvirana temporalis and Clinotarsus curtipes) to their common predator, water scorpions (Laccotrephes sp.; Hemiptera: Nepidae), and the importance of refugia in predator avoidance were studied in the laboratory. In a total of 60 experimental trials, 10 tadpoles each of I. temporalis and C. curtipes of comparable body sizes were exposed to water scorpions (starved for 48 h). Thirty trials included refugia while 30 did not. The results of this study showed that in both the absence and the presence of refugia C. curtipes tadpoles fell prey to water scorpions more frequently than I. temporalis tadpoles. A main difference between the two species is the speed of swimming; Vmax of C. curtipes (24.73 cm/s) tadpoles is lower than that of I. temporalis (30.78 cm/s) tadpoles. This is likely to be the reason why more C. curtipes tadpoles were preyed upon than were I. temporalis tadpoles. Predation risk of tadpoles of both species was affected significantly by the presence of refuge sites. The vulnerability of both tadpole species was lower where refuge sites were available. The present study clearly shows that I. temporalis tadpoles avoid predation by water scorpions more effectively than do C. curtipes tadpoles.","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48797799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p117-123
R. Bosch, A. H. Marrero, Juan L. Leal Echevarría, Idalia Herrera Estrada, Leoncio Gómez Castillo, Adrián David Trapero Quintana
{"title":"Limb abnormalities in Peltophryne florentinoi (Anura: Bufonidae) from Cuba","authors":"R. Bosch, A. H. Marrero, Juan L. Leal Echevarría, Idalia Herrera Estrada, Leoncio Gómez Castillo, Adrián David Trapero Quintana","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p117-123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p117-123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47739897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p15-25
Isla Carol Marialva Camargo, Jackeline Cristina Palma Veras, Síria Ribeiro, R. Kawashita-Ribeiro, R. Fraga, Alfredo P. Santos-Jr Júnior
Sexual selection, fecundity selection and ecological divergence have been the main explanations proposed for the origin and maintenance of sexual dimorphism. In this study we provide evidence of sexual dimorphism in the South American aquatic snake Helicops polylepis, which is mainly determined by body and head sizes. Males have longer tails and more subcaudal scales, and females have larger body and head and more ventral scales. The sexual dimorphism observed in different morphological characters of H. polylepis occurs in other species of xenodontine snakes and is interpreted as a consequence of sexual selection pressures. Data on growth rates associated with prey availability and female size-related offspring size are necessary to refine our analyzes and test specific hypotheses about the ecological and evolutionary bases of sexual dimorphism in H. polylepis.
{"title":"Sexual dimorphism in the South American water snake Helicops polylepis (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)","authors":"Isla Carol Marialva Camargo, Jackeline Cristina Palma Veras, Síria Ribeiro, R. Kawashita-Ribeiro, R. Fraga, Alfredo P. Santos-Jr Júnior","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p15-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p15-25","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual selection, fecundity selection and ecological divergence have been the main explanations proposed for the origin and maintenance of sexual dimorphism. In this study we provide evidence of sexual dimorphism in the South American aquatic snake Helicops polylepis, which is mainly determined by body and head sizes. Males have longer tails and more subcaudal scales, and females have larger body and head and more ventral scales. The sexual dimorphism observed in different morphological characters of H. polylepis occurs in other species of xenodontine snakes and is interpreted as a consequence of sexual selection pressures. Data on growth rates associated with prey availability and female size-related offspring size are necessary to refine our analyzes and test specific hypotheses about the ecological and evolutionary bases of sexual dimorphism in H. polylepis.","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48477144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p99-104
E. P. Maglangit, Jason Jon Joshua B. Paraguya, Rae Mar T. Maglangit, O. Nuñeza, M. L. Diesmos, A. Diesmos
{"title":"Novel cave habitat used by the cryptic lizard Pinoyscincus abdictus abdictus (Squamata: Scincidae) on Dinagat Islands, Philippines","authors":"E. P. Maglangit, Jason Jon Joshua B. Paraguya, Rae Mar T. Maglangit, O. Nuñeza, M. L. Diesmos, A. Diesmos","doi":"10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p99-104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v20i1p99-104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48704,"journal":{"name":"Phyllomedusa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48011252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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