Description and natural history notes of the tadpole of Proceratophrys belzebul (Anura: Odontophrynidae)
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Carrasco-Medina, Andres Santiago
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Ernetti, Julia R.
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Botelho, Lucas Machado
Projeto Dacnis, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Muscat, Edelcio
Projeto Dacnis, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Toledo, L. Felipe
Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-06-27
5474
3
292
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.6
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TABLE 1. Morphological measurements (mm) of 12 tadpoles of Proceratophrys belzebul: total length (TL), body length (BL), maximum body width (BW), body height (BH), tail length (TAL), maximum tail height (MTH), tail muscle width at the same level (TMW), tail muscle height at body-tail junction (TMH), upper fin height (UFH), lower fin height (LFH), eye diameter (ED), interorbital distance (IOD), internarial distance (IND), distance from center of naris to center of eye (NE), nostril-snout distance (NSD), eye-snout distance (ES). Values presented as mean ± standard deviation (range).| Character | Stage 35 (n = 3) | Stage 37 (n = 1) | Stage 39 (n = 3) | Stage 41 (n = 5) |
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| TL | 28.8 ± 1.44 (26.8–29.6) | 34.6 | 31.2 ± 0.61 (30.8–32) | 30.7 ± 5.58 (20.3–34.3) |
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| BL | 12.9 ± 0.75 (12.1–13.6) | 14.2 | 13.4 ± 0.42 (12.8–13.6) | 12.7 ± 1.11 (10.6–13.5) |
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| BW | 9.5 ± 0.44 (8.8–9.6) | 9.1 | 9.9 ± 0.61 (9.1–10.3) | 10.6 ± 1.07 (8.6–10.9) |
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| BH | 5.6 ± 0.36 (5.1–5.8) | 5.9 | 5.8 ± 0.17 (5.8–6.1) | 5.9 ± 0.66 (4.6–6) |
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| TAL | 16.2 ± 0.50 (15.7–16.7) | 20.8 | 18.4 ± 0.55 (17.8–18.9) | 18.4 ± 4.95 (8.9–21.9) |
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| MTH | 6.5 ± 0.4 (6–6.8) | 6.6 | 6.8 ± 0.49 (6–6.9) | 6.9 ± 0.59 (5.6–7) |
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| TMW | 3.1 ± 0.15 (3- 3.3) | 2.8 | 3.3 ± 0.40 (2.8–3.6) | 3.1 ± 0.17 (2.9–3.3) |
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| TMH | 3.3 ± 0.23 (2.9–3.3) | 3.3 | 3.5 ± 0.26 (3.4–3.9) | 3.6 ± 0.34 (3.1–4) |
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| UFH | 2.4 ± 0.42 (1.8–2.6) | 2.2 | 2.3 ± 0.29 (2.3–2.8) | 2.1 ± 0.36 (1.6–2.6) |
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| LFH | 1.8 ± 0.17 (1.5–1.8) | 1.6 | 2 ± 0.46 (1.4–2.3) | 1.8 ± 0.18 (1.4–1.8) |
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| ED | 1.5 ± 0.20 (1.3–1.7) | 1.8 | 1.8 ± 0.12 (1.6–1.8) | 1.6 ± 0.11 (1.6–1.8) |
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| IOD | 3.9 ± 0.32 (3.4–4) | 3.8 | 4.3 ± 0.10 (4.2–4.4) | 4.3 ± 0.11 (4.1–4.4) |
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| IND | 2.1 ± 0 (2.1–2.1) | 2.2 | 2.1 ± 0.15 (1.9–2.2) | 2 ± 0.23 (1.6–2.2) |
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| NE | 1.8 ± 0.06 (1.7–1.8) | 2 | 2.1 ± 0.06 (2–2.1) | 2.1 ± 0.05 (2-2.1) |
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| NSD | 1.5 ± 0.26 (1.1–1.6) | 1.4 | 1.3 ± 0 (1.3–1.3) | 1.4 ± 0.13 (1.1–1.4) |
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| ES | 3 ± 0.35 (2.6–3.3) | 2.9 | 2.9 ± 0.10 (2.8–3) | 2.9 ± 0.18 (2.6–3.1) |
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