Anurans of a disturbed area in Jarú, Rondônia, Brazil

Liliana Piatti; Vitor Sanches; Paulo Amaro; Jhonatas Araújo; Paulo Bernarde

doi:10.15560/8.1.083

Check List 8(1): 83-87, doi: 10.15560/8.1.083

Anurans of a disturbed area in Jarú, Rondônia, Brazil

Liliana Piatti^‡, Paulo Matthes Orlandi de Amaro^§, Jhonatas Fernando de Jesus Araújo^§, Vitor Quadros Altamore Sanches^§, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde^|

‡ Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil§ Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Brazil| Universidade Federal do Acre, Brazil

Corresponding author: Liliana Piatti ( lilianapiatti@gmail.com )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Piatti L, Sanches V, Amaro P, Araújo J, Bernarde P (2012) Anurans of a disturbed area in Jarú, Rondônia, Brazil. Check List 8(1): 83-87. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.1.083

Abstract

This paper presents a checklist of anurans species and their distribution in a disturbed area in the municipality of Jarú, Rondônia state, Brazil. Nineteen species belonging to eight families were sampled with pitfall traps and time constrained searches. About 70% of the species were found in a secondary forest and 40% were found only in this environment, while about 57% were found in pastures, with 26% of species being registered only in this habitat. Our results were similar to those of previous studies in other disturbed areas of Rondônia. Species that can be found in different habits were unevenly distributed, with forested environments harboring more species. Despite its nearness to Cerrado and the large number of open areas available, most species found are typical of the Amazon forest.

Keywords

Amphibia; Anura; species inventory; Brazil; Rondônia