Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision

J Faivovich, CFB Haddad, PCA Garcia, DR Frost… - Bulletin of the American …, 2005 - BioOne
Hylidae is a large family of American, Australopapuan, and temperate Eurasian treefrogs of
approximately 870 known species, divided among four subfamilies. Although some groups …

Reproductive modes in frogs and their unexpected diversity in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

CFB Haddad, CPA Prado - BioScience, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Amphibians, and especially the anurans (frogs and toads), exhibit a greater diversity of
reproductive modes than other tetrapod vertebrates. Twenty-nine reproductive modes have …

Multimodal Communication in a Noisy Environment: A Case Study of the Bornean Rock Frog Staurois parvus

TU Grafe, D Preininger, M Sztatecsny, R Kasah… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
High background noise is an impediment to signal detection and perception. We report the
use of multiple solutions to improve signal perception in the acoustic and visual modality by …

Safety bubbles: a review of the proposed functions of froth nesting among anuran amphibians

J Gould - Ecologies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The adults of several anuran amphibian species deposit their eggs externally in mucus
secretions that are purposely aerated to produce a froth nest. This type of clutch structure …

Nocturnality in synapsids predates the origin of mammals by over 100 million years

KD Angielczyk, L Schmitz - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nocturnality is widespread among extant mammals and often considered the ancestral
behavioural pattern for all mammals. However, mammals are nested within a larger clade …

Multimodal Signaling in Male and Female Foot‐Flagging Frogs Staurois guttatus (Ranidae): An Alerting Function of Calling

TU Grafe, TC Wanger - Ethology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In multimodal communication, individuals use several sensory modalities for information
transfer. We report on novel observations of foot‐flagging in the Bornean ranid frog Staurois …

Social interactions in Hypsiboas albomarginatus (Anura: Hylidae) and the significance of acoustic and visual signals

LOM Giasson, CFB Haddad - Journal of Herpetology, 2006 - BioOne
Social behavior of Hypsiboas albomarginatus was studied in the Atlantic rain forest,
Municipality of Ubatuba, in the north coast of the State of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil …

Breeding biology and the evolution of dynamic sexual dichromatism in frogs

RC Bell, GN Webster, MJ Whiting - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Dynamic sexual dichromatism is a temporary colour change between the sexes and has
evolved independently in a wide range of anurans, many of which are explosive breeders …

Diversity and evolution of sexually dimorphic mental and lateral glands in Cophomantini treefrogs (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

AE Brunetti, GN Hermida, MC Luna… - Biological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We describe the structure and histochemistry of mental and lateral glands in a
representative array of 28 species of five genera of the Neotropical hylid frog tribe …

Visual communication, reproductive behavior, and home range of Hylodes dactylocinus (Anura, Leptodactylidae)

P Narvaes, MT Rodrigues - Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2005 - revistas.usp.br
We studied the signaling, reproductive and courtship behaviors of the diurnal stream-
dwelling frog Hylodes dactylocinus. The repertoire of visual signals of H. dactylocinus …