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Body size, diet and endoparasites of the microhylid frog Chiasmocleis capixaba in an Atlantic Forest area of southern Bahia state, Brazil

2006; Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil); Volume: 66; Issue: 1a Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1519-69842006000100021

ISSN

1678-4375

Autores

Monique Van Sluys, Gilberto Menezes Schittini, R. V. Marra, A. R. M. Azevedo, Juan Jesus Vicente, Davor Vrcibradic,

Tópico(s)

Turtle Biology and Conservation

Resumo

We analyzed the diet composition, endoparasites and sexual size dimorphism of the microhylid frog Chiasmocleis capixaba (Microhylidae) from a "mussununga" habitat in the municipality of Nova Viçosa, southern Bahia state, Brazil. All the 119 specimens analyzed were collected in a single night of heavy rainfall. Females (mean snout-vent length = 15.7 + 3.0 mm) were significantly larger than males (mean snout-vent length = 13.2 + 2.1 mm), and specimens of both sexes were smaller than those of a conspecific population previously reported in Aracruz, state of Espírito Santo state. The diet of C. capixaba was dominated by mites, ants and collembolans. Seventy-nine frogs (66.4% of the total) were infected by helminths, all belonging to a single species, Cosmocerca ornata, an intestinal nematode parasite.

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