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Tadpole morphology, advertisement call and natural history notes of Ololygon muriciensis (Anura: Hylidae: Scinaxini)

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  • 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; & Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil; & Setor de Herpetologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil;
  • 2. Departamento de Biodiversidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil; & División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia' - CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
  • 3. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil; & Setor de Herpetologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil;
  • 4. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil;
  • 5. División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia' - CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; & Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Dubeux, Marcos J. M., Araujo-Vieira, Katyuscia, Mott, Tamí, Neves, Jessika Maria, Faivovich, Julián, do Nascimento, Filipe A. C. (2025): Tadpole morphology, advertisement call and natural history notes of Ololygon muriciensis (Anura: Hylidae: Scinaxini). Journal of Natural History 59 (25-28): 1949-1977, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2510265, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2510265

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