Open AccessAdvertisement call of a population of the nurse frog Leucostethus fraterdanieli (Anura: Dendrobatidae), with notes on its natural history
Author(s) -
Julián Andrés Rojas-Morales,
Enrique La Marca,
Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
biota colombiana/biota colombiana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2539-200X
pISSN - 0124-5376
DOI - 10.21068/c2021.v22n01a08
Subject(s) - natural history , duration (music) , population , range (aeronautics) , demography , zoology , biology , ecology , geography , engineering , physics , sociology , acoustics , aerospace engineering
We describe the advertisement call of seven males and observations on the natural history related to the parental attention by males, of a population of nurse frogs attributed to the Leucostethus fraterdanieli complex from the Central Cordillera in the Department of Caldas, Colombia. The advertisement call consists of a long sequence of repeated (x̅ = 143 notes.min-1) pulsed notes, which have an average duration of 79 ± 17 ms (range 63-122 ms), separated by time intervals between 187-413 ms (289 ± 67 ms). The dominant frequency values are in the range between 3209-3520 Hz. Our results suggest differences in temporal and spectral parameters between the population studied and other populations assigned to L. fraterdanieli, L. brachistriatus, and the recently described L. jota.