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1 August 2012 Acoustic Repertoire of Barycholos ternetzi (Anura: Strabomantidae) in Central Brazil
Priscila Lemes, Geiziane Tessarolo, Alessandro R. Morais, Rogério P. Bastos
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Abstract

Barycholos ternetzi is an anuran species from the Brazilian Cerrado which can be found in gallery forests and Cerrado sensu strictu. Currently, the only available information about the natural history of B. ternetzi is a previous description of its advertisement call. Herein, we studied the vocal repertoire of this species in October 2009 at Floresta Nacional de Silvânia, Goiás state, Central Brazil. We recognized four distinct vocalizations, of which the advertisement call was the most common. The aggressive call was emitted in response to a neighbor male, while the distress and fighting calls were emitted, respectively, when the male was caught or during physical interactions. We also observed that the dominant frequency was influenced by call duration and body size, while the call duration and repetition rate were influenced by air temperature. Furthermore, we observed that the chorus size influenced the repetition rate of the advertisement call of B. ternetzi.

© 2012 Brazilian Society of Herpetology
Priscila Lemes, Geiziane Tessarolo, Alessandro R. Morais, and Rogério P. Bastos "Acoustic Repertoire of Barycholos ternetzi (Anura: Strabomantidae) in Central Brazil," South American Journal of Herpetology 7(2), 157-164, (1 August 2012). https://doi.org/10.2994/057.007.0205
Received: 2 April 2012; Accepted: 1 July 2012; Published: 1 August 2012
KEYWORDS
Advertisement call
Aggressive call
Aggressive interaction
Distress call
Fighting call
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