Authors
Marcos Jorge Matias Dubeux, Filipe Augusto Cavalcanti do Nascimento, Luana Rodrigues Lima, Felipe de Medeiros Magalhães, Izabel Regina Soares da Silva, Ubiratan Gonçalves, João Paulo Felix Almeida, Larissa Lima Correia, Adrian Antonio Garda, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita, Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres, Tamí Mott
Publication date
2020/7/1
Journal
Biota Neotropica
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
e20180718
Publisher
Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade| BIOTA-FAPESP
Description
Although anuran tadpoles are widely distributed and abundant in tropical aquatic habitats, there is a lack of taxonomic keys for the Atlantic Forest. Herein, we developed a dichotomous key for identifying the tadpoles for all species with known larval phase and already recorded in the Atlantic Forest north of the São Francisco River. We analyzed discrete characteristics of 1,042 tadpoles encompassing 63 species of 28 genera from 32 localities. The user-friendly key includes illustration and pictures, and it is a significant step towards improving our knowledge of tadpoles of the Atlantic Forest.
Scholar articles
MJM Dubeux, FAC Nascimento, LR Lima… - Biota Neotropica, 2020