Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil

Authors

  • Eduardo Oliveira Pacheco Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas
  • Vanessa Gonçalves Ferreira Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas
  • Rose Marie Hoffmann de Carvalho Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v16i1p57-62

Keywords:

food items, natural history, trophic ecology

Abstract

Anurans are important in trophic food chains because they feed on invertebrates, many of which are harmful to humans. We investigated the diet of 100 specimens of Boana albopunctata from an Atlantic Forest fragment in Ponte Nova municipality, Minas Gerais state. We obtained 107 prey items. The most common prey were Lepidoptera, Araneae and Coleoptera. This species tended to select larger prey in smaller quantities as found in previous reports, but differed in the taxons selected because of spatial and temporal variation in microhabitats and the availability of invertebrates in savannas

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Published

2017-06-28

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Articles

License

All material originally published in Phyllomedusa belongs to Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz - Universidade de São Paulo. All contents are under a license of Creative Commons BY-NC-ND.

How to Cite

Pacheco, E. O., Ferreira, V. G., & Carvalho, R. M. H. de. (2017). Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil. Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 16(1), 57-62. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v16i1p57-62