hear Fonozoo call

Distribution and Habitat

Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Argentina, Chile

	View distribution map in BerkeleyMapper.
	View Bd and Bsal data (7 records).

Comments
This species was featured in News of the Week 17 February 2025:

Traits are inheritable characteristics and can vary among individuals, a basis for selection to operate. Repeatability is one of the first quantifiable measures towards suggesting heritability and a potential response to selection. In amphibians, acoustic signals with higher repeatability has been observed to likely have high heritability values, and traits with low repeatability values are likely non-heritable. Moreno-Gómez et al. (2024) conducted a study of variation and repeatability of the calls of males of the Banded Wood Frog, Batrachyla taeniata, from the South American temperate forest. In lab-controlled conditions, they exposed male frogs for eight days to choruses recorded in the field where the animals were collected. They found that variation of acoustic properties was significantly affected by temporal blocks and days of recording, and that the three variables measured behaved differently: call rate generally increased within and throughout days; call duration decreased during these time spans and dominant frequency decreased within days but increased across days. Nonetheless, patterns of change indicate that repeatability tends to increase toward the end of any given day for the three acoustic properties. The overall increase in repeatability values within days for the three call variables analyzed indicate an increase in individual consistency and inter-individual variation, which would imply that females can exert their mate choices based on call features more effectively at later hours of a signaling day. (Written by Leticia Ochoa Ochoa)

Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2025 Batrachyla taeniata: Banded Wood Frog <https://amphibiaweb.org/species/2583> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Apr 30, 2025.

Citation: AmphibiaWeb. 2025. <https://amphibiaweb.org> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed 30 Apr 2025.

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