We present a comprehensive review of larval morphology in the Neotropical toad genus
Melanophryniscus. The taxa studied included 23 species with representatives of recognized …

Microbial diversity positively influences community resilience of the host microbiome.
However, extinction risk factors such as habitat specialization, narrow environmental …

Melanophryniscus admirabilis is a frog endemic to the southern Atlantic Forest (Brazil), with
restricted distribution and considered as critically endangered. The aim of this study was to …

The bufonid species Melanophryniscus admirabilis is restricted to a single location in the
southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Although the site of occurrence of M. admirabilis is covered …

A obtenção de listas de espécies constitui-se no primeiro passo para o desenvolvimento de
estratégias de conservação. O Parque Estadual de Itapeva (PEVA) é uma unidade de …

(Araceae) and Cyclantus sp.(Cyclanthaceae). At Corta Vento Farm adults were captured in
the leaf litter of the forest floor and in two artificial dams in an open area covered by …

Three new species of Melanophryniscus are described from the Serra do Mar mountain
range of the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. All species are found at intermediate to …

Melanophryniscus admirabilis is a microendemic and critically endangered toad, known
from a single population. This microendemic species inhabits a small fragment of the Atlantic …

Toads of the genus Melanophryniscus are known since the mid-late 19th Century, and the
first skeletal description was made early in 1875. However, it was not until the 1970s that …

Aposematic signals as well as body behaviours may be important anti-predator defences.
Species of the genus Melanophryniscus are characterised by having toxic lipophilic …