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Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil

2017; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v16i1p57-62

ISSN

2316-9079

Autores

Eduardo Oliveira Pacheco, Vanessa Gonçalves Ferreira, Rose Marie Hoffmann de Carvalho,

Tópico(s)

Animal and Plant Science Education

Resumo

Anurans are important in trophic food chains because they feed on invertebrates, many of which are harmful to humans. We investigated the diet of 100 specimens of Boana albopunctata from an Atlantic Forest fragment in Ponte Nova municipality, Minas Gerais state. We obtained 107 prey items. The most common prey were Lepidoptera, Araneae and Coleoptera. This species tended to select larger prey in smaller quantities as found in previous reports, but differed in the taxons selected because of spatial and temporal variation in microhabitats and the availability of invertebrates in savannas

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