Anurans in a forest remnant in the transition zone between cerrado and atlantic rain forest domains in southeastern Brazil

Pirani, Renata M.; Nascimento, None Luciana Barreto; Feio, Renato Neves

doi:10.1590/s0001-37652013000300014

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“…Likewise, other populations considered as Scinax aff. perereca have been found in the region (Canelas & Bertoluci 2007, Moura et al 2012, Pirani et al 2012, Pimenta et al 2014, Neves et al 2017b). Nonetheless, the taxon still remains without a precise identification to the species level.…”

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Anurans of a protected area from Mantiqueira Complex, Atlantic Forest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil

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The ecological domain of the Atlantic Forest holds a remarkable diversity of anurans with a great degree of endemism, most of which are distributed in high altitude areas, mostly represented by the mountains along the Mantiqueira Complex and Serra do Mar. Despite its biological importance, the region still shows a gap of sampling concerning the amphibians. Thus, we present the first systematic survey of the anuran fauna from Área de Proteção Ambiental Boqueirão da Mira (APABM), in the region of Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Two fieldwork expeditions were performed where fifteen sample points were inventoried through active night search and day audiovisual survey in breeding and foraging sites. The anuran fauna of the APABM presented 43 species distributed in 12 families, with the Hylidae family being the richest (17 species). Besides, four species had their distribution increased due to our findings (Hylodes perere, Physalaemus rupestris, Bokermannohyla ibitipoca and Ololygon cosenzai), all of them as endemic to the Mantiqueira Complex. This study revealed that the APABM has a great diversity of anuran species, more representative than adjacent regions such as the Parque Estadual Ibitipoca and close to the richness presented for the Parque Estadual Serra Negra da Mantiqueira. This work demonstrates the great importance of the APABM for conservation, highlighting it as an area of high diversity of the regional anuran species.

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Anurans of a protected area from Mantiqueira Complex, Atlantic Forest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil

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“…Our results corroborate studies in which environmental heterogeneity partly explains variations in the richness and composition of the anuran communities (Parris 2004, Vasconcelos and Rossa-Feres 2005, Oda et al 2016. In fact, the number of microhabitats used by males as vocalization sites tends to influence the anurans species richness and composition (Afonso and eterovick 2007, Vasconcelos and Rossa-Feres 2008, Pirani et al 2013.…”

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Influence of microhabitat on the richness of anuran species: a case study of different landscapes in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil

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An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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“…Of the 34 species in the Leptodactylus fuscus group (Silva et al., 2020), four are endemic to the campo rupestre, with three of them restricted to single mountain ranges (Carvalho et al., 2013): Leptodactylus camaquara (EMR), Leptodactylus oreomantis (Chapada Diamantina) and Leptodactylus tapiti (Veadeiros Plateau). The fourth species ( Leptodactylus cunicularius ) is in the EMR (Pirani et al., 2013; São‐Pedro & Feio, 2011; Sazima & Bokermann, 1978) as well as the Mantiqueira Mountain Range (reported hereinafter as Mantiqueira Range), including Poços de Caldas and Canastra plateaus, and surroundings (Cardoso & Haddad, 1992; Cruz et al., 2009; Giaretta et al., 2008; Haddad et al., 1988). In addition to the above‐mentioned records, many specimens collected by us or present in herpetological collections have been tentatively assigned to L. cunicularius based on morphological and acoustic data.…”

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Systematics and cryptic diversification of Leptodactylus frogs in the Brazilian campo rupestre

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The campo rupestre is a unique mountaintop ecosystem in eastern South America, recognised for its endemism and as ecological refugia for plant and animal taxa. Multiple clades of frogs are represented in the Brazilian campo rupestre. One such case is four species of the Leptodactylus fuscus group, three of which are endemic to specific mountain ranges (Leptodactylus camaquara, Leptodactylus oreomantis and Leptodactylus tapiti) and one that is more widespread across different mountain ranges (Leptodactylus cunicularius). In this study, we conducted a phylogenetic analysis of the clade containing the four Leptodactylus species endemic to the campo rupestre ecosystem and explored the biogeographic scenarios of origin and diversification of these montane frogs. The origin and early diversification of this frog clade took place in the Espinhaço Mountain Range (EMR) in the Miocene. This was followed by successive dispersal events to other mountain ranges in a circular pathway and subsequent rapid lineage diversification during the Plio‐Pleistocene transition and early Pleistocene. The diversification of this anuran clade was likely triggered by the Pleistocene climatic oscillations and culminated in the return of one of the montane species to the EMR. Contrasting patterns of phenotypic and genetic divergence indicate cryptic speciation in these frogs unaccompanied by phenotypic disparity. A phenotypically cryptic but highly divergent genetic lineage was found to represent a distinct evolutionary unit in the Northern EMR, described here as a new species (Leptodactylus avivoca sp. n.). The circular dispersal pathway in this frog clade revealed a unique diversification pattern among vertebrates endemic to the Brazilian campo rupestre.

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Anurans in a forest remnant in the transition zone between cerrado and atlantic rain forest domains in southeastern Brazil

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Anurans of a protected area from Mantiqueira Complex, Atlantic Forest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Anurans of a protected area from Mantiqueira Complex, Atlantic Forest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Influence of microhabitat on the richness of anuran species: a case study of different landscapes in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil

Systematics and cryptic diversification of Leptodactylus frogs in the Brazilian campo rupestre

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