title: Reinterpreting features of the advertisement call of Dermatonotus muelleri (Boettger, 1885; Anura, Microhylidae).
abstract: The advertisement call of Dermatonotus muelleri was originally described by Nelson (1973) in a brief section of a review on the mating calls of the Microhylinae. He used two calls from São Leopoldo, state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil to determine that they have i) dominant frequency between 1.500-2.200 kHz (mean 1.854 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+ 0.216 kHz), and ii) harmonic intervals between 0.140 and 0.150 kHz (0.146 +/- 0.005 kHz). Nelson (1973) based his description on an audiospectrogram produced with high frequency resolution and did not quantify the pulse structure of the calls. More recently, Giaretta and colleagues (2013) expanded on the original description using a larger set of calls recorded from Gurinhat, state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. They quantified the temporal structure of the call and confirmed that the dominant frequency is around 1.8 kHz. In addition, they identified a secondary low frequency band at 667 Hz.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Taxonomia de Anuros (Lissamphibia) Neotropicais, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Faculdade de Ciências Integradas do Pontal, Rua 20, n 1600, Bairro Tupã, 38.304-402, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil; Email: aagiaretta@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ariovaldo Antonio
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Giaretta
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences. University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211 USA.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Pacific
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vo
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences. University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211 USA.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herche
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences. University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211 USA.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Justine Nicole
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences. University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211 USA.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gridi-Papp
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D012098:Reproduction; D014828:Vocalization, Animal