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Anurans of the Urucu Petrol Basin, municipality of Coari, State of Amazonas, northern Brazil

2013; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15560/9.3.601

1809-127X

Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente, Marcelo José Sturaró, Alessandra Elisa Melo Travassos, Gleomar Fabiano Maschio, Maria Cristina dos Santos-Costa,

Turtle Biology and Conservation

We present the first species amphibian list for municipality of Coari, state of Amazonas, Brazil. The list was drawn up as a result of data obtained from specimens deposited in the Herpetological Collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and inventories conducted in the Urucu Petrol Base, in 2003-2004 and 2007-2009. Sampling methods included pitfall traps with drift fences and time constrained searches. We considered the data collected by other researchers, incidental encounters and records of dead individual on the road. Fifty four species were recorded. Rhinella gr. margaritifera (n= 68), Adenomera gr. marmorata (n= 59), and Osteocephalus leprieurii (n= 20) were the most collected, while ten species were less collected. Compared with other studies in eastern Amazonia, the region of Urucu presented a large number of anurans. Nonetheless, it ́s not possible to confirm this because the data collected were not standardized among studies. However, further studies by, increasing the sampling effort, could prove this area to be richer in anurans than that observed so far.