EXTENSIÓN DE DISTRIBUCIÓN Y CUIDADO PARENTAL EN Leptodactylus brevipes COPE, 1887 (ANURA: LEPTODACTYLIDAE)
Parental care plays an important role in offspring survival in many amphibians, including frog species of the family Leptodactylidae. Here, we report a new locality of occurrence for Leptodactylus brevipes in the Brazilian Cerrado and describe its parental care behaviour. We observed a female of L....
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetología |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.herpetologia.fciencias.unam.mx:article/466 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://herpetologia.fciencias.unam.mx/index.php/revista/article/view/466 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Amphibia inversión parental cohorte de renacuajos parental investment tadpole school |
| Resumo: | Parental care plays an important role in offspring survival in many amphibians, including frog species of the family Leptodactylidae. Here, we report a new locality of occurrence for Leptodactylus brevipes in the Brazilian Cerrado and describe its parental care behaviour. We observed a female of L. brevipes guarding a school of tadpoles and performing pumping behaviour. The tadpoles remained close to the attending female, scraping her legs and dorsal region several times. We did not record female aggressive behaviour. Our results agree with observations of maternal care in other species of the L. melanonotus, incluyendo L. melanonotus, L. natalensis, L. podicipinus and L. pustulatus. |
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