Expanding the knowledge about the occurrence of anurans in the highest amphibian diversity area of Atlantic Forest: Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, São Paulo, Brazil

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  • Fernando Rodrigues da Silva Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Laboratório de Ecologia Teórica: Integrando Tempo, Biologia e Espaço
  • Mariana Lúcio Lyra Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Zoologia e Centro de Aquicultura da UNESP, Instituto de Biociências
  • Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Zoologia e Centro de Aquicultura da UNESP, Instituto de Biociências
  • Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica

Keywords:

Amphibians, Biodiversity, Conservation, Hotspots, Species list

Abstract

Abstract The vegetation cover in the Atlantic Forest has been converted to human use or degraded by human activities, which declined the vegetation to 16% of its original extent. Although several protected areas have been created in this Neotropical biome over the past decades, our knowledge of the amphibian species within these areas is still far from adequate. Here, we present lists of anuran species from three different areas of Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar: núcleos Curucutu, Santa Virgínia and São Sebastião. To survey anuran species, we visited six sampling units (two ponds, two streams and two trails inside forest fragments) in each locality. Samplings were accomplished from December 2014 to February 2015, December 2015 to February 2016 and December 2016 to February 2017, totalizing 27 days of field samplings in each sampling unit. We recorded 34 anuran species in the Núcleo Curucutu, 44 species in the Núcleo São Sebastião and 42 species in the Núcleo Santa Virgínia, totalizing 65 species belonging to 12 families (number of species in parentheses): Bufonidae (5), Brachycephalidae (6), Centrolenidae (1), Craugastoridae (1), Cycloramphidae (2), Hemiphractidae (1), Hylidae (29), Hylodidae (3), Leptodactylidae (12), Microhylidae (2), Odontophrynidae (2), and Phyllomedusidae (1). We hope that these lists can be useful for future studies as well as helping in the management and conservation planning of these protected areas.

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Published

2017-01-01

How to Cite

Silva, F. R. da, Lyra, M. L., Haddad, C. F. B., & Rossa-Feres, D. de C. (2017). Expanding the knowledge about the occurrence of anurans in the highest amphibian diversity area of Atlantic Forest: Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, São Paulo, Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 17(2). Retrieved from //www.biotaneotropica.org.br/BN/article/view/1447

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