Check List 9(3): 601-606, doi: 10.15560/9.3.601
Anurans of the Urucu Petrol Basin, municipality of Coari, State of Amazonas, northern Brazil
expand article infoAna Lúcia da Costa Prudente‡, Marcelo José Sturaro‡, Alessandra Elisa Melo Travassos‡, Gleomar Fabiano Maschio§, Maria Cristina Santos-Costa§
‡ Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil

Corresponding author: Ana Lúcia Prudente ( prudente@museu-goeldi.br )

© 2017 Ana Lúcia Prudente, Marcelo Sturaro, Alessandra Travassos, Gleomar Maschio, Maria Cristina Santos-Costa.
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Citation: da Costa Prudente A, Maschio G, Sturaro M, Travassos A, Santos-Costa M (2013) Anurans of the Urucu Petrol Basin, municipality of Coari, State of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Check List 9(3): 601-606. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.3.601
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Abstract
We present the first species amphibian list for municipality of Coari, state of Amazonas, Brazil. The list was drawn up as a result of data obtained from specimens deposited in the Herpetological Collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and inventories conducted in the Urucu Petrol Base, in 2003-2004 and 2007-2009. Sampling methods included pitfall traps with drift fences and time constrained searches. We considered the data collected by other researchers, incidental encounters and records of dead individual on the road. Fifty four species were recorded. Rhinella gr. margaritifera (n= 68), Adenomera gr. marmorata (n= 59), and Osteocephalus leprieurii (n= 20) were the most collected, while ten species were less collected. Compared with other studies in eastern Amazonia, the region of Urucu presented a large number of anurans. Nonetheless, it ́s not possible to confirm this because the data collected were not standardized among studies. However, further studies by, increasing the sampling effort, could prove this area to be richer in anurans than that observed so far.
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