Most anurans can be classified as either explosive or prolonged breeders, although these actually represent two ends of a continuum. In general, anurans that inhabit arid or semiarid regions have explosive breeding periods ...

Hylorina sylvatica (Anura: Batrachyidae) or emerald frog is a pond-breeding anuran, endemic to the austral temperate forests of Chile and Argentina. The distribution is narrowed in Argentina with few records and very ...

We describe habitat and inter-populational call variation of the dendrobatid frog Ameerega flavopicta. Data were collected in the Brazilian states ofminas Gerais and Goias. Principal component analysis separated the Goias ...

Little is known about the reproductive biology of species of the genus Melanophryniscus. This study provides the first description of amplexus behaviour, egg-laying sites, clutch characteristics and larval development of ...

We examine factors that influence male mating success in the glass frog Centrolene savagei; in addition, we describe courtship behaviour, oviposition and early parental behaviour. Fieldwork was conducted in the Colombian ...

The genus Pseudopaludicola includes small-sized anurans, widely distributed throughout South America. Twenty-three out of the 25 species occur in Brazil. Although described more than a century ago, from mid-southern Mato ...