{"id":118908,"date":"2013-05-24T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=118908"},"modified":"2013-05-24T15:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:21:51","slug":"marsupial-tree-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/marsupial-tree-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsupial tree frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_118909\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118909\" alt=\"Female Gastrotheca recava of the Atlantic Forest of Bahia: back pouch full of eggs\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/012-013_Tecnociencia_206-3.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"267\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Mauro Teixeira jr. \/ USP<\/span>Female Gastrotheca recava of the Atlantic Forest of Bahia: back pouch full of eggs<span class=\"media-credits\">Mauro Teixeira jr. \/ USP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two new species of \u201cmarsupial\u201d tree frogs have been discovered in the Atlantic Forest by a team led by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, herpetologist from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP).\u00a0 Both species belong to the genus <i>Gastrotheca<\/i>, whose females have a type of pouch on their backs, which is used to carry their eggs.\u00a0 Protected within the pouch, the eggs develop until they become tadpoles, or even small tree frogs.\u00a0 The researchers witnessed 20 offspring leave the back of a female <i>Gastrotheca recava<\/i> captured at the Wenceslau Guimar\u00e3es State Ecological Center, located in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia.\u00a0 \u201cThere were hundreds of them hanging on the branches, vocalizing,\u201d recalls Mauro Teixeira Jr., USP doctoral candidate and first author of the article that describes the new species (<i>Zootaxa<\/i>, August 2012).\u00a0 Another species, <i>Gastrotheca prasina<\/i>, was discovered living inside bromeliads in an isolated area of the Mata Escura Biological Reserve in Jequitinhonha, state of Minas Gerais.\u00a0 For Rodrigues, the findings underscore the fact that \u201cwe still know so little about Brazil\u2019s fauna.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marsupial tree frogs","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[209],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-118908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-biology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118908"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}