Herpetology Notes, volume 12: 431-433 (2019) (published online on 01 May 2019)

Anurans associated with the bromeliad Bromelia goeldiana L.B.Sm# on a floodplain in northern Brazil, eastern Amazon

Patrick Ribeiro Sanches1, Fillipe Pedroso Santos1, Juliana Gonçalves Correa1, Pedro Ferreira França1, Jackson Cleiton Sousa1, Patrick Castro Cantuária2, and Carlos Eduardo Costa-Campos1,*

Bromeliaceae is a diverse family composed mainly The predominant vegetation in this area is várzea, a of epiphytes, most of them belonging to the phytotelm floodplain consisting mainly of aquatic macrophytes type with rosulate ramets where enough leaf litter and (Takiyama et al., 2007). Sampling for frogs occurred rainwater accumulate to support aquatic life, thereby from 0800–1200 h on each sampling day. The process providing microhabitats for a diversity of invertebrates consisted of three researchers walking parallel to each and vertebrates (Dejean and Olmsted, 1997). Bromeliads other in the floodplain, each searching bromeliads are used by anurans as sites of vocalization, oviposition, serendipitously as they were encountered. tadpole development, and foraging (Duellman and Voucher specimens were preserved in 10% formalin, Trueb, 1994; Schineider and Teixera, 2001; Ferreira transferred to 70% ethanol (Heyer et al., 1994), and et al., 2012). Peixoto (1995) organized the different deposited in the Herpetological Collection of the degrees of bromeliad association into categories, using Universidade Federal do Amapá (specimen numbers the terms ‘bromelicolous’ and ‘bromeligenous’. The provided are Carlos Eduardo Costa-Campos field former refers to frog species that use bromeliads strictly numbers, CECCAMPOS). as shelter or feeding grounds, whereas the latter refers to species that are strictly dependent on the bromeliad Results and Discussion plant and use it during their entire life cycle. Herein, we During the inventory we surveyed anurans in present a list of anurans associated with bromeliads in a 18 bromeliads and found five species (see Table floodplain of the Matapi River in northern Brazil. 1), including Boana raniceps, Dendropsophus haraldschultzi, Scinax boesemani, S. fuscomarginatus, Materials and methods and Sphaenorhynchus lacteus (Fig. 1). Dendropsophus Fieldwork was carried out on three days per month haraldschultzi and Sphaenorhynchus lacteus were the from June–November 2015 (dry season) along the banks most frequently captured species. All species found of the Matapi River, Ariri District, Macapá Municipality, Amapá State, Brazil (0.2993°N, 51.1298°W; WGS84).

Table 1. Anurans recorded in in Bromelia goeldiana along the Matapi River, Ariri District, Macapá Municipality, Amapá State, Brazil. All species are members of the family Hylidae. 1 Universidade Federal do Amapá, Departamento deTable Ciências 1. Anurans Voucher recorded in numbers in Bromelia are Carlos goeldiana Eduardo along the Costa-Campus Matapi River, field Ariri District, Macapá Biológicas e da Saúde, Laboratório de Herpetologia,Municipality, Campus Amapánumbers. State, Brazil. All species are members of the family Hylidae. Voucher numbers are Carlos Eduardo Costa-Campus field numbers. Marco Zero do Equador, Macapá, Amapá 68903-419, Brazil. 2 Herbário Amapaense, Divisão de Botânica, Centro de Species Voucher Pesquisas Zoobotânicas e Geológicas, Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá, Macapá, Dendropsophus haraldschultzi (Bokermann, 1962) 1230 Amapá 68903-419, Brazil. Boana raniceps Cope, 1862 1122 * Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Scinax boesemani (Goin, 1966) 1224 # In botanical nomenclature, the author abbreviation L.B.Sm. Scinax fuscomarginatus (A. Lutz, 1925) 1215 indicates that this species was described by the American Sphaenorhynchus lacteus (Daudin, 1800) 1144 botanist Lyman Bradford Smith (1904–1997). 432 Patrick Ribeiro Sanches et al.

Figure 1. Five hylid frog species found in Bromelia goeldiana along the Matapi River, Ariri District, Macapá Municipality, Amapá State, Brazil. (A) The host plant, Bromelia goeldiana. (B) Boana raniceps. (C) Dendropsophus haraldschultzi. (D) Scinax boesemani. (E) Scinax fuscomarginatus. (F) Sphaenorhynchus lacteus.

in our study were given the Red List status of Least This bromeliad species occurs in Venezuela and in the Concern (IUCN, 2018). Brazilian states of Amazonas, Pará, and Amapá (Forza All encountered species are frogs of the family Hylidae, et al., 2017; Govaerts, 2017). The collected species are found in the bromeliad Bromelia goeldiana L.B.Sm. all categorized as bromelicolous, which means that these Anurans associated with Bromelia goeldiana in northern Brazil 433 frogs use the bromeliad as a diurnal shelter and during Missassi, A.F.R., Costa-Campos, C.E., Lima, J.D., Lambertini, foraging, but not for any aspect of their reproductive C. (2017): Range extension of the poorly known tree frog biology (Peixoto, 1995). Dendropsophus haraldschultzi (Bokermann, 1962) (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae): first records for two Brazilian Amazon states. The frog species we identified in our study all have Herpetology Notes 10: 703–707. a relatively wide geographic distribution across the Peixoto, O.L. (1995): Associação de anuros e bromeliáceas na mata Amazon Forest (Azevedo-Ramos and Gallati, 2001). Atlântica. Revista Universidade Rural, Série Ciências da Vida While three of these species had previously been 17 (2): 75–83. reported as using bromeliads (Corrêa et al., 2017), B. Pombal, J.P., Jr. (1997): Distribuição espacial e temporal de anuros raniceps and S. boesemani were recorded in bromeliads (Amphibia) em uma poça permanente na Serra de Paranapiacaba, for the first time. The five species of frogs we found sudeste do Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 57: 583–594. Schineider, J.A.P., Teixeira, R.L. (2001): Relacionamento entre included Dendropsophus haraldschultzi, a species only anfíbios anuros e bromélias da restinga de Regência, Linhares, recently discovered in Amapá State (Missassi et al., Espírito Santo, Brasil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 91: 41–48. 2017). Our records reinforce the potential importance of Takiyama, L.R., Cunha, A.C., Silva, M.S., Martins, M.H.A., bromeliads for the maintenance of frog assemblages in Rodrigues, L.J.C., Avelar, S.B., Dias, R. (2007): Subsídios floodplains of the Matapi River. à Gestão de Recursos Hídricos na Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Matapi. Macapá, Amapá, Brazil, Instituto de Pesquisas Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to Jéssica Canela, Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá/ Programa Pedro Nery, and Raimundo Baía for their help during our Estadual de Gerenciamento Costeiro, Relatório Técnico. fieldwork. We also would like to acknowledge the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) for the collecting license (SISBIO #45990-1). We are grateful to Thiago R. de Carvalho for valuable suggestions on a previous version of the manuscript.

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