The tadpole of Chiasmocleis schubarti Bokermann, 1952 (Amphibia, Anura: Microhylidae)

The genus Chiasmocleis Méhely comprises 29 species distributed from Panama to tropical South America clustered in five clades: C. albopunctata, C. bassleri, C. hudsoni, C. shudikarensis and C. ventrimaculata (Peloso et al. 2014). Chiasmocleis schubarti Bokermann belongs to the C. albopunctata clade, which also includes C. alagoana Cruz, Caramaschi, and Freire, C. albopunctata (Boettger), C. capixaba Cruz, Caramaschi, and Izecksohn, C. lacrimae Peloso, Sturaro, Forlani, Gaucher, Motta, and Wheeler, C. leucosticta (Boulenger), and possibly other morphologically and/or molecularly related species that have never been included in a phylogenetic analysis in a broader context (e.g., C. atlantica Cruz, Caramaschi and Izecksohn, C. cordeiroi Caramaschi & Pimenta, C. crucis Caramaschi & Pimenta, C. gnoma Canedo, Dixo and Pombal and C. mantiqueira Cruz, Feio and Cassini) (Cruz et al. 2007). Within these species, C. alagoana, C. albopunctata, C. lacrimae, C. leucosticta and C. mantiqueira have their larval forms described (Wogel et al. 2004; Nascimento & Skuk 2006; Oliveira-Filho & Giaretta 2006; Langone et al. 2007; Santana et al. 2012)

The tadpoles of two species of the Bokermannohyla circumdata group (Hylidae, Cophomantini)

We describe the external morphology and oral cavity of the tadpoles of Bokermannohyla caramaschii and B. diamantina respectively from the states of Espírito Santo and Bahia, Brazil. Larvae of both species are distinguished from each other by external characters such as body shape, labial tooth-row formula, number of marginal papillae, coloration and internal oral anatomy features. Some of the character states of the tadpoles of B. caramaschii and B. diamantina that are shared with all other described tadpoles of the Bokermannohyla circumdata group, such as the absence/reduction of small flaps with accessory labial teeth laterally in the oral disc, and the absence/reduction of submarginal papillae, may represent morphological synapomorphies of this species group, or at least of some internal clade. The general pattern of brownish coloration with longitudinal stripes on the caudal muscle is also common to most species of the group. We did not find character states of the oral cavity that are exclusively shared by species of the B. circumdata group, or by other groups of Bokermannohyla

Figure 1 in Improved local inventory and regional contextualization for anuran (Amphibia) diversity assessment at an endangered habitat in southeastern Brazil

Figure 1. Result of the WPGMA (Jaccard's index) showing (A) dissimilarities among localities with published anuran inventories at the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, southeastern Brazil, and (B) their spatial distribution. Locality names are as in Table 2.Published as part of Mascarenhas, L., Tiso, C., Linares, A.M., Moura, C.F.O. de, Pezzuti, T.L., Leite, F.S.F. & Eterovick, P.C., 2015, Improved local inventory and regional contextualization for anuran (Amphibia) diversity assessment at an endangered habitat in southeastern Brazil, pp. 1265-1281 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 1270, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1103911, http://zenodo.org/record/399028

Improved local inventory and regional contextualization for anuran (Amphibia) diversity assessment at an endangered habitat in southeastern Brazil

Mascarenhas, L., Tiso, C., Linares, A.M., Moura, C.F.O. de, Pezzuti, T.L., Leite, F.S.F., Eterovick, P.C. (2015): Improved local inventory and regional contextualization for anuran (Amphibia) diversity assessment at an endangered habitat in southeastern Brazil. Journal of Natural History 50: 1265-1281, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1103911, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.110391