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Frederick JH, Iskandar DT, Riyanto A, Hamidy A, Reilly SB, Stubbs AL, Bloch LM, Bach B, McGuire JA. A new species of terrestrially-nesting fanged frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0292598. [PMID: 38117860 PMCID: PMC10732399 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/22/2023] Open
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Herein, we describe a new species of terrestrially-nesting fanged frog from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Though male nest attendance and terrestrial egg deposition is known in one other Sulawesi fanged frog (Limnonectes arathooni), the new species exhibits a derived reproductive mode unique to the Sulawesi assemblage; male frogs guard one or more clutches of eggs festooned to leaves or mossy boulders one to two meters above small slow-moving streams, trickles, or seeps. This island endemic has thus far been collected at three sites on Sulawesi: one in the Central Core of the island, and two on the Southwest Peninsula-south of the Tempe Depression (a major biogeographical boundary). The new Limnonectes has the smallest adult body size among its Sulawesi congeners-with a maximum snout-vent length of about 30 millimeters. Beyond its unique reproductive behavior and body size, the species is further diagnosed on the basis of advertisement call and genetic distance from sympatric fanged frogs. The discovery and description of the new species highlights the remarkable reproductive trait diversity that characterizes the Sulawesi fanged frog assemblage despite that most species in this radiation have yet to be formally described.
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- Jeffrey H. Frederick
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Technology Bandung, Java, Indonesia
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- Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute of Sciences—LIPI, Java, Indonesia
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- Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute of Sciences—LIPI, Java, Indonesia
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America
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Augusto-Alves G, Dena S, Toledo LF. Acoustic allometry, background stream noise and its relationship with large-bodied and voiceless rheophilic frogs. ZOOL ANZ 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2021.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Dena S, Rebouças R, Augusto-Alves G, Zornosa-Torres C, Pontes MR, Toledo LF. How much are we losing in not depositing anuran sound recordings in scientific collections? BIOACOUSTICS 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2019.1633567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Simone Dena
- Fonoteca Neotropical Jaques Vielliard (FNJV), Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas “Adão José Cardoso” (ZUEC), Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
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- Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
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- Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
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- Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
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- Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
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- Fonoteca Neotropical Jaques Vielliard (FNJV), Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas “Adão José Cardoso” (ZUEC), Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
- Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, Brazil
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Augusto-Alves G, Dena SA, Toledo LF. Visual communication and aggressive behaviour in a giant mute torrent-frog, Megaelosia apuana (Anura; Hylodidae). AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA 2018. [DOI: 10.1163/15685381-20181000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Advertisement call is the most common signal used by anurans for intraspecific communication. However, some species have lost the ability to emit these vocalizations and are denoted as mute. Alternatively, these species may communicate by visual, tactile and chemical signals. The lack of advertisement call could be explained by the high background noise of breeding microhabitats. A model group to study alternative communication tactics is the genus Megaelosia, which is composed by seven mute species that inhabit noisy streams, and for which no information on intraspecific communication is available. We monitored a population of M. apuana and described its visual signalling during aggressive interactions between males. This interaction included visual signalling, physical combat, and the retreat of the smaller individual. No audible sound was detected during the whole aggressive interaction, reinforcing the genus muteness. This is the first report of any communication behaviour for the genus Megaelosia.
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- Guilherme Augusto-Alves
- 1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo 13083-862, Brazil
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- 3Fonoteca Neotropical Jacques Vielliard (FNJV), Museu de Zoologia Adão José Cardoso (ZUEC), Instituto de Biologia, Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-862, Brazil
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- 3Fonoteca Neotropical Jacques Vielliard (FNJV), Museu de Zoologia Adão José Cardoso (ZUEC), Instituto de Biologia, Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-862, Brazil
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Matsui M, Kuraishi N, Eto K, Hamidy A, Nishikawa K, Shimada T, Yambun P, Vairappan CS, Hossman MYB. Unusually high genetic diversity in the Bornean Limnonectes kuhlii-like fanged frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2016; 102:305-19. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2016] [Revised: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Katsikaros K, Shine R. Sexual dimorphism in the tusked frog, Adelotus brevis (Anura:Myobatrachidae): the roles of natural and sexual selection. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1997.tb01482.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Rao DQ, Wilkinson JA. Phylogenetic relationships of the mustache toads inferred from mtDNA sequences. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2007; 46:61-73. [PMID: 18024176 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2007] [Revised: 10/04/2007] [Accepted: 10/07/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Species of the genus Vibrissaphora are unique among all anurans in that males exhibit external cornified spines in the maxillary region during the breeding season. They were separated from species of the genus Leptobrachium based on this unique character. We construct a phylogeny using the 16S, ND4, and cytochrome b mitochondrial genes of 42 individuals from eight species of Vibrissaphora and five species of Leptobrachium from mainland China, Southeast Asia, and Hainan Island. Species of both Oreolalax and Scutiger were used as outgroups. The results indicate that: L. huashen and L. chapaense form a clade that is nested within Vibrissaphora, and L. hainanense is the sister taxon to the clade comprising all Vibrissaphora plus L. chapaense and L. huashen; V. boringiae is grouped with a clade consisting of V. leishanensis, V. liui, and V. yaoshanensis; and V. yaoshanensis is a species separate from V. liui. We propose taxonomic changes that reflect these findings. Also based on the resulting phylogenetic trees, we propose that the mustache toads originated in the trans-Himalayan region of southwest China, and that the evolution of maxillary spines, large body size, and reverse sexual size dimorphism in these frogs was influenced by intrasexual selection due to adopting a resource-defense polygyny mating system.
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- Ding-Qi Rao
- Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
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Emerson SB. Vertebrate Secondary Sexual Characteristics-Physiological Mechanisms and Evolutionary Patterns. Am Nat 2000; 156:84-91. [PMID: 10824023 DOI: 10.1086/303370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/1999] [Accepted: 02/03/2000] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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As most commonly presented, the organization-activation theory of sexual differentiation emphasizes the importance of the relative age of the organism for understanding steroid hormone effects. However, considering the actual physiological mechanisms of tissue enlargement (hyperplasia/hypertrophy) provides an additional perspective for interpreting patterns of evolutionary change in sexual dimorphism. Using that focus, it is possible to suggest mechanistic explanations for patterns of allometry and the size of some secondary sexual characteristics produced by "runaway" selection. It can also lead to the formulation of testable hypotheses regarding the type of sexually dimorphic characters that might evolve through "good genes" models; the relationship between intrasexual competition, polygyny, and the development and size of male weapons; and the control and type of secondary sexual characteristics that will be present in males with associated and disassociated reproductive patterns.
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Matsui M. Calls produced by a “voiceless”“frog,Rana blythiBoulenger 1920, from Peninsular Malaysia (Amphibia Anura). Tropical Zoology 1995. [DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1995.10539289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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