Diet of Leptodactylus ocellatus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from a cacao plantation in southern Bahia, Brazil

Herpetology Notes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-15

  Solé, Mirco ^a   Dias, Iuri R ^a   Rodrigues, Erika A S ^a   Marciano, Euvaldo ^a   Branco, Samuel M J ^a   Cavalcante, Kaoli P ^a   Rödder, Dennis ^b,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Cacao plantation; Diet; Predation; Trophic niche

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; LEPTODACTYLUS OCELLATUS; TELEOSTEI; THEOBROMA CACAO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76849117351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20715773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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