Is there a dialect in Pelodytes punctatus from southern Portugal?

Paillette, M.; Oliveira, M. E. M. de; Rosa, H. D.; Crespo, Eduardo G.

doi:10.1163/156853892x00292

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“…This way, many new taxa have been detected by variations in their advertisement calls before their genetics were studied (e.g. Schneider 1974;Schneider et al 1984;Paillette et al 1992;Schneider and Haxhiu 1994;Matsui 1997;Myers et al 1997;Sánchez-Herraiz et al 2000;Channing et al 2002). In addition, the detailed description of anuran advertisement calls has proved to be a powerful tool for the determination of the taxonomic status of specimens collected in less explored areas (e.g.…”

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Advertisement calls of six species of anurans from Bali, Republic of Indonesia

Márquez

Eekhout

2006

Journal of Natural History

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We describe quantitatively the advertisement calls of six species of anurans from Bali and the release call of three of these. The advertisement calls of three of the species and the three release calls have not been described previously to the best of our knowledge. This is the first study that describes calls from anurans of the island of Bali. Advertisement call characteristics are discussed in light of withinindividual and between-individual variation. For the three species with previously published accounts of their advertisement calls we compare the data obtained in Bali with other accounts. While Bufo melanostictus did not show a substantial difference in advertisement calls from Coorg (India), the calls of Balinese Fejervarya (Limnonectes) limnocharis show substantial differences with those recorded in Coorg (India). Furthermore, the Balinese recordings of Polypedates leucomystax are similar to recordings obtained by other authors in Negros (Philippines), the Malaysian part of Borneo, and from one of the morphs present in peninsular Malaysia, while being clearly different from recordings of populations from Thailand, Polillo (Philippines), and from the other morph recorded in Malaysia.

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Advertisement calls of six species of anurans from Bali, Republic of Indonesia

Márquez

Eekhout

2006

Journal of Natural History

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“…Pelodytes punctatus is a species of parsley frog occurring in France, North-East Italy, most of Eastern Spain and in Central and Southern Portugal (Oliveira et al, 1983;Sánchez-Herráiz, 2001) which has been the subject of relatively few eld studies (Toxopeus, 1985;Paillette et al, 1992;Toxopeus et al, 1993). In this study we attempt to nd a correlation between call parameters and male size and age in Pelodytes punctatus, a species of Pelodytidae with a pulsed two-note advertisement call (Hotz, 1971;Elzen, 1975Elzen, , 1976.…”

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Effects of age, size and temperature on the advertisement calls of two Spanish populations of Pelodytes punctatus

Sánchez-Herráiz¹,

Barbadillo²,

Esteban³

et al. 2002

Amphib Reptilia

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Advertisement calls of males from two Spanish populations of parsley frogs (Pelodytes punctatus) were recorded. Body size (SVL, mass) and calling temperature were measured, and age was determined through skeletochronolog y of phalanges . Calling males were 2-7 years old in Valencia. In Burgos, males were 1-6 years old and the age structure was highly skewed with more than 50% of the sample of males being 1 year old. The range of body temperatures of calling males was similar in both sites (10-15.1 ± C in Valencia, and 10-17.5 ± C in Burgos). Males called with the typical two-note advertisement call A-B, although in Burgos it was common to hear A-only calls. In both populations repetition of the second note was rare. Calls of both populations showed a negative correlation between temporal parameters (note duration, inter-note interval, pulse rate) and body temperature. On the other hand, spectral parameters (dominant frequencies and dominant frequency ranges) were not correlated to temperature and correlation with body size (SVL, mass) was non-signi cant. Age was not signi cantly correlated with dominant frequency or with any other measured call parameter. Call frequency in Pelodytes is a poor predictor of male body size and does not convey information on age. Thus, any size-related mating trends could result from non-static calling parameters such as call intensity, or from mechanisms of malemale competition (e.g. chorus attendance).

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“…Beside these works, few other bioacoustic studies with taxonomic implications have been published concerning European anurans (e.g. Lorcher, 1969;Crespo, 1981;Crespo et al, 1989;Paillette et al, 1992;Marquez and Bosch, 1996). Bioacoustic data are of great help in the study of anuran species complexes, but their use should be done keeping some limitations of the method in mind.…”

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Lists of European species of amphibians and reptiles: will we soon be reaching "stability"?

Dubois¹

1998

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Zoologists at the end of our century are faced with a strong demand from "society" for "final and definitive" lists of taxon names: such lists are requested in particular by administrations and users of "official lists" of species. This has entailed, even among some professional taxonomists, a strong movement in favour of artificial stability of taxon names and of a replacement of the basic rule of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the rule of priority, by a so-called "rule of common usage". The aim of this paper is to show, taking the example of European anuran amphibians, that this way of posing the question is wrong. The major factor of change in taxon names in zoology is taxonomic research, not nomenclatural grooming. Contrary to what is often believed, even in "well-known" regions like Europe, numerous new species have recently been discovered, in part through the use of new research techniques (electrophoresis, bioacoustics, etc.), but also as a result of better exploration of natural populations: the misleading idea that "the European fauna is well known" has acted as a brake against recognition of new taxa when these were discovered in the field. Name changes due to the mere application of nomenclatural rules are much less numerous than those due to the progress of taxonomic research, and they would be even much less common if zoologists and editors paid more attention to the international rules of nomenclature. We are still far from reaching the "holy grail" of "final lists" of animal faunae, even in Europe, and, rather than trying to comply with this request from "society", zoologists should explain why this goal will not be reached soon, and that the only way to accelerate the movement towards it would be the creation of numerous positions of professional zoologists and the increase of funds afforded to basic zoological research in Europe.

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Is there a dialect in Pelodytes punctatus from southern Portugal?

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Advertisement calls of six species of anurans from Bali, Republic of Indonesia

Advertisement calls of six species of anurans from Bali, Republic of Indonesia

Effects of age, size and temperature on the advertisement calls of two Spanish populations of Pelodytes punctatus

Lists of European species of amphibians and reptiles: will we soon be reaching "stability"?

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