Living together, sometimes feeding in a similar way: the case of the syntopic hylid frogs Hypsiboas raniceps and Scinax acuminatus (Anura: Hylidae) in the Pantanal of Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology

Lt. Sabagh²  Vl. Ferreira¹  Cfd. Rocha² 

[1] ,Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Departamento de Ecologia Laboratório e Ecologia de VertebradosRio de Janeiro RJ ,Brasil

关键词: diet;    niche overlap;    sympatric species;    trophic niche;    dieta;    sobreposição de nicho;    espécies simpátricas;    nicho trófico;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1519-69842010000500006

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

We studied the feeding ecology of two Hylinae anurans (Hypsiboas raniceps and Scinax acuminatus), living sympatrically and syntopically in the Pantanal of Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. The two hylid species had similar relative mouth width but differed in body size. The diet of the two frog species were composed of arthropodan prey. Both species consumed 11 different prey types, of which seven were common among them. Hypsiboas raniceps had a larger niche breadth (B A = 0.64) than S. acuminatus (B A = 0.48). Trophic niche overlap among frog species was 60.7 %. Our data are suggestive that although for many anurans the diet simply tend to reflect prey availability in the microhabitat, these two frog species, despite sharing similar microhabitat and period of activity (thus potentially exposed to a similar array of preys), tends to differ somewhat in diet (about 40%) which may result from some intrinsic ecological aspects to each of them (e.g. ecophysiology) and/or differences in body size.

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