Abstract

WILLIAMS LEON DE CASTRO, Marta  and  REY SANCHEZ, Dennis. First record of the presence and reproduction of the anuran Rhinella Poeppigii (Tschudi, 1845) in an anthropic area in Lima, Peru. Ecol. apl. [online]. 2014, vol.13, n.2, pp.109-115. ISSN 1726-2216.

The presence of Rhinella poeppigii an anuran species that can be found in cloud forests of the Andean slopes and tropical moist forest in the Amazonian foothills of Peru and Bolivia (Angulo et al., 2004), is reported for the first time in the coastal desert of Peru, department of Lima. A description of its reproductive events is included, recorded from early April to late November 2012, in a small pond inside the “Octavio Velarde Núñez” Botanical Garden, at La Molina National Agrarian University. During the reproductive activity the number of individuals involved, their sex, and mating system were recorded as well as the microhabitat they chose for their reproduction. The irrigation system in the area and increases in environmental temperature triggered the onset of the explosive reproductive events.

Keywords : Rhinella poeppigii; reproductive events; mating system; botanical garden.

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