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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-06-12
Page range: 147–150
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The advertisement call of the endemic Bokermannohyla martinsi (Bokermann, 1964) (Anura: Hylidae) from southern Espinhaço range, southeastern Brazil

Laboratório de Herpetologia, Jacarezário, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Jacarezário, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Florestal, Florestal, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Anura Hylidae

Abstract

The Brazilian hylid genus Bokermannohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell & Wheeler, 2005 is currently composed of four (B. circumdata, B. claresignata, B. martinsi, and B. pseudopseudis) species groups (Faivovich et al. 2005). To date, the Bokermannohyla martinsi species group comprises only three species (Faivovich et al. 2009): B. martinsi (Bokermann, 1964), B. langei (Bokermann, 1965), and B. juiju Faivovich, Lugli, Lourenço & Haddad, 2009, whose advertisement calls remain unknown to science. Bokermannohyla martinsi is a narrowly distributed hylid frog species endemic to the southernmost portion of the Espinhaço range, known as Quadrilátero Ferrífero (QF). Located in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, the QF is considered an area of “special biological importance” (Drummond et al. 2005). Notwithstanding, because QF is one of the most important iron-ore mining districts in the world (Spier et al. 2003), it has increasingly been target of anthropogenic threats, being one of the most endangered Brazilian landscapes (Jacobi et al. 2007; Jacobi & Carmo, 2008). Herein, we describe for the first time the advertisement call of a member of B. martinsi group, B. martinsi.