Descriptions of the advertisement calls of three sympatric frog species in the subgenus Vatomantis (genus Gephyromantis) from Madagascar

Joana Sabino-Pinto, Christopher J. Mayerl, Willem R.M. Meilink, Diana Grasso, Constantijn C.B. Raaijmakers, Valerio G. Russo, Maud Segal, Gwij Stegen, Jonathan Clegg, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences

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Abstract

Frogs of the subgenus Vatomantis Glaw and Vences, 2006 form a monophyletic group within the genus Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920 in the family Mantellidae, endemic to Madagascar and Mayotte. In anurans, vocalization is often a valuable character complex for taxonomical classification since it is an efficient premating isolation mechanism, and to add to the bioacoustic knowledge on Madagascar's frogs we here provide a description of the advertisement calls of three sympatric species in the subgenus Vatomantis: Gephyromantis webbi (Grandison, 1953), G. rivicola (Vences, Glaw and Andreone, 1997) and G. silvanus (Vences, Glaw and Andreone, 1997). Calls of all three species were recorded the same day at the same temperature, in sympatry along a small stream in a forest fragment near Andranofotsy, allowing for a direct comparison. The call of G. webbi is the shortest, with long inter-call interval length. Overall, the calls of G. rivicola and G. silvanus show more similarities to one another than to that of G. webbi.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)67-73
Number of pages7
JournalHerpetology Notes
Volume7
Issue number0
StatePublished - Feb 4 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Andranofotsy
  • Bioacoustics
  • Mantellidae
  • Rivicola
  • Silvanus
  • Webbi

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Animal Science and Zoology

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