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

Authors

  • Diego José Santana Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Cidade Universitária
  • Sarah Mângia Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia
  • Ricardo Rodrigues da Silveira- Filho Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia
  • Lívia Cláudia da Silva Barros Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento Ciências Biológicas
  • Igor Andrade Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento Ciências Biológicas
  • Marcelo Felgueiras Napoli Universidade Federal da Bahia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia
  • Flora Juncá Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento Ciências Biológicas
  • Adrian Antonio Garda Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário

Keywords:

Amphibians, Caatinga, semiarid, species list, biodiversity

Abstract

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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Published

2015-07-01

How to Cite

Santana, D. J., Mângia, S., Silveira- Filho, R. R. da, Silva Barros, L. C. da, Andrade, I., Napoli, M. F., Juncá, F., & Garda, A. A. (2015). Anurans from the Middle Jaguaribe River Region, Ceará State, Northeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 15(3). Retrieved from //www.biotaneotropica.org.br/BN/article/view/1168

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