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- Title
Diet of bromeliad-frog Phyllodytes luteolus (Anura, Hylidae) in Atlantic Forest environments: what have the frogs been eating outside sandy coastal plains?
- Authors
Marques Mageski, Marcio; Costa Campinhos, Elaine; Duca, Charles; Carolina Stein, Maria; Peron de Oliveira, Melissa; Garcia Clemente-Carvalho, Rute Beatriz
- Abstract
Knowledge about the diet of anurans in different environments is essential to understanding important aspects of their trophic ecology. The bromeliad-frog Phyllodytes luteolus inhabits tank bromeliads in sandy coastal plains and lowland forests on the mainland, as well as a continental island in southeastern Brazil. In this work, we describe and analyze the diet of P. luteolus in three environments. We obtained the consumed prey items of 92 frogs (32 from sandy coastal plain, 32 from lowland forest and 28 from the island) via a stomach-flushing procedure. We found some variations in consumed prey composition and prey volume across populations, but ants represented the most important consumed prey in all environments. Only ants had a relative importance greater than 50%, which may suggest a specialized diet that transcends the sandy coastal plain environment.
- Subjects
FROGS; BROMELIACEAE; HYLIDAE; ANIMAL feeding behavior; COASTAL plains; FOOD
- Publication
Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2019, p1
- ISSN
0031-1049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11606/1807-0205/2019.59.29