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The advertisement and release call of the Bahia forest frog Macrogenioglottus alipioi (Anura: Odontophrynidae) with comments on its morphometry, from southern Bahia, northeastern Brazil

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The advertisement call of Macrogenioglottus alipioi was firstly described 40 years ago from Santa Teresa municipality, Espírito Santo state, Brazil. With the advancement of digital recording and call analysis in bioacoustics, we redescribe the advertisement call of M. alipioi from a population close to its type locality, municipality of Uruçuca, Bahia. Additionally, we describe the release call and provide morphometric data. The advertisement call of M. alipioi consists of a simple pulsatile structured call, which can be emitted alone or in a series of 4–9 calls. The mean call duration is 0.46 ± 0.04 s (0.35–0.55 s) and dominant frequency ranges from 344.5 to 430.7 Hz (366.2 ± 37.56 Hz). The release call of M. alipioi usually has a pulsatile spindle-shaped waveform with harmonics and sidebands in the spectrum. The mean call duration is 0.175 s ± 0.067 (0.032–0.314 s) and dominant frequency ranges from 387.60 to 559.90 Hz (420.99 Hz ± 30.63 Hz). Males (95.3 ± 5.5 mm) and females (99.6 ± 7.8 mm) do not differ in body length, although they present significant differences related to morphometric variables of the hind limbs. We provide new bioacoustical and morphometric data of M. alipioi from a population close to its type locality. This information can help future studies that aim to define the range of a species that is widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest.

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Acknowledgements

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES)/Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation through an “experienced researcher” grant issued to MS. It is also part of the working group “Large Scale automated acoustic monitoring of anuran amphibians” promoted by the National Institute for Science and Technology (INCT) in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, supported by MCTIC/CNPq and FAPEG. Work by MS is supported by a CNPq productivity fellowship. Scholarships were provided by CNPq (CNPq–Project: 406899/2017-7, Process: 167387/2017-0 and 155198/2018-1) to IRD. CVMM is grateful to CAPES for a fellowships (process PNPD/1682788) and particular thanks to his wife Fernanda Tonolli and son Francisco Tonolli Mendes for their patience, affection and eternal loving support.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas Aquáticos Tropicais, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus, Bahia, 45662-900, Brazil

    Caio Vinícius de Mira-Mendes & Yvonnick Le Pendu

  2. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus, Bahia, 45662-900, Brazil

    Caio Vinícius de Mira-Mendes, Iuri Ribeiro Dias, Yvonnick Le Pendu & Mirco Solé

  3. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus, Bahia, 45662-900, Brazil

    Iuri Ribeiro Dias, Giovanni Tanajura Silva, Gabriel Novaes-e-Fagundes, Yvonnick Le Pendu & Mirco Solé

  4. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Conservação da Fauna, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Rod. Washington Luís km 235, São Paulo, 13565-905, São Carlos, Brazil

    Renato Augusto Martins

  5. Herpetology Section, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, Bonn, 53113, Germany

    Mirco Solé

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Recordings in the field were done by CVMM, IRD and RAM. Acoustic analysis was performed by GTJ, and GNF. CVMM wrote the first draft with the aid of IRD, RAM, GTJ, GNF, YLP and MS. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Appendix 1. Specimens examined.

Appendix 1. Specimens examined.

Macrogenioglottus alipioi: BRAZIL: BAHIA: Ilhéus (topotypes): MZUESC 7510, 13516, 19086, 20401-403, 20405-407; Una: MZUESC 10400; Uruçuca: MZUESC 17899, 17917, 18213, 20404.

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de Mira-Mendes, C.V., Dias, I.R., Silva, G.T. et al. The advertisement and release call of the Bahia forest frog Macrogenioglottus alipioi (Anura: Odontophrynidae) with comments on its morphometry, from southern Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Biologia 75, 2271–2276 (2020). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00488-w

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