{"id":188040,"date":"2015-05-15T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=188040"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:06:16","slug":"the-riverhead-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-riverhead-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"The riverhead frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_188041\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188041\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno\u2013Hylodes-japi-macho-Serra-do-Japi-Jundiai-SP-3-abril-19892400-dpi031.jpg\" alt=\"Hylodes japi: at mating time, males escort females to their underwater chambers\" width=\"290\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno\u2013Hylodes-japi-macho-Serra-do-Japi-Jundiai-SP-3-abril-19892400-dpi031.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno\u2013Hylodes-japi-macho-Serra-do-Japi-Jundiai-SP-3-abril-19892400-dpi031-120x81.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno\u2013Hylodes-japi-macho-Serra-do-Japi-Jundiai-SP-3-abril-19892400-dpi031-250x168.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">C\u00c9LIO HADDAD \u2013 UNESP<\/span><em>Hylodes japi<\/em>: at mating time, males escort females to their underwater chambers<span class=\"media-credits\">C\u00c9LIO HADDAD \u2013 UNESP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The crystal-clear waters of streams in the Japi Mountains, near Jundia\u00ed in the interior of the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, have recently revealed a new species of tree frog: <em>Hylodes japi<\/em>, who participates in a peculiar kind of reproductive behavior. Having successfully attracted a mate, the male frog escorts his partner into a tiny chamber dug into the sand amidst the rocks at the bottom of the stream, accessible by a narrow entrance. One at a time, the couple enters the chamber, where they proceed to deposit and fertilize the eggs.\u00a0 Biologist F\u00e1bio de S\u00e1 discovered the new species during his master&#8217;s studies, advised by C\u00e9lio Haddad at S\u00e3o Paulo State University (Unesp) in the city of Rio Claro (<em>Herpetologica<\/em>, March 2015). Some time ago, Haddad himself had already observed other animals from this species, but identified them as belonging to a different, similar one. This identification of a new species was not the only new discovery. \u201cIn addition to being observed very rarely, this reproductive behavior had only been reported for fish, prior to being described for some other species in this family of amphibians,\u201d says S\u00e1. The frog was given its scientific name in homage to the only place it has even been seen: the forest reserve in Serra do Japi State Park. The area is under constant threat from the populous cities nearby \u2013 the park is located in the city of Jundia\u00ed, about 60 kilometers from the center of S\u00e3o Paulo. In the tupi language, <em>japi<\/em> means riverhead, precisely the natural habitat of the new species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New tree frog species found in Japi Mountain&#8217;s creeks","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":[224,218,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-188040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-ecology","tag-ethology","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188040","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=188040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188040"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=188040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}