Published December 31, 2012 | Version v1
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Aromobates

Description

Aromobates vocalizations

Only the call of five species of Aromobates are known to date, those of Aromobates meridensis (Barrio-Amorós et al. 2010a), A. ornatissimus (Barrio-Amorós et al. 2011), A. cannatellai, A. ericksonae and A. saltuensis (this work). Table 3 resumes the basic parameters of each species vocalization.

Species Temperature Pulse rate (per second) Dominant frequency (Hz) Note length/call length (sec) A. cannatellai 21.4 ºC 5–6 2998 –3237 0.04/CT1 A. ericksonae 22.3 ºC 0.8 3730–4314 0.2/CT A. meridensis 19.0 ºC 9.4 2400–2950 0.05/2.4 A. ornatissimus 19.0 ºC 0.3 3057–3120 0.10/– A. saltuensis 22.5 ºC 1–2 2 3437–3863 0.15 3/CT

1CT: continuous trill; 2notes in duplets; 3duplet instead of single pulsed note.

Notes

Published as part of Barrio-Amorós, César Luis & Santos, Juan Carlos, 2012, A phylogeny for Aromobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae) with description of three new species from the Andes of Venezuela, taxonomic comments on Aromobates saltuensis, A. inflexus, and notes on the conservation status of the genus, pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 3422 on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210130

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Aromobatidae
Genus
Aromobates
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anura
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Barrio-Amoros, C. L., Romero E. & Infante, E. (2010 a). The Critically Endangered Venezuelan Dendrobatid Frog Aromobates meridensis (Amphibia: Anura): redescription, natural history and conservation. Revista Latino Americana de Ecologia, 15, 1 - 12.