Anurans from the Middle Jaguaribe River Region, Ceará State, Northeastern Brazil

Biota Neotropica

Diego José Santana¹  Sarah Mângia¹  Ricardo Rodrigues Da Silveira- Filho¹  Lívia Cláudia Da Silva Barros¹  Igor Andrade¹  Marcelo Felgueiras Napoli¹  Flora Juncá¹  Adrian Antonio Garda¹ 

关键词: Amphibians;    Caatinga;    semiarid;    species list;    biodiversity;    Anfíbios;    Caatinga;    semiárido;    lista de espécies;    biodiversidade;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1676-06032015001715

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The Middle Jaguaribe River region is a poorly sampled area in the Caatingas domain, located in the eastern Ceará State, northeastern Brazil. The Brazilian government agencies considered this region as a priority area for conservation and inventories. In order to fill this biodiversity knowledge gap, we conducted a ten-day rapid inventory of the anuran fauna from April 11 to 20, 2014, surveying different physiognomies of the region. We recorded 19 anuran species belonging to five families: Bufonidae (2), Hylidae (5), Leptodactylidae (9), Microhylidae (2) and Odontophrynidae (1). Most inventories of Caatinga amphibians published to date have been conducted inside protected areas and/or of high altitude (mesic areas known as "brejos de altitude"). The list we present herein contributes to the knowledge of lowland Caatinga sites outside protected areas. We discuss our results in light of taxonomic and geographic features of the anurans sampled.

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