Male-male interspecific amplexus of Chalcorana chalconota and Limnonectes kuhlii in Cimumpang, Indonesia.

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... occupy slow-moving waterbodies in degraded forest and tea plantations (Kurniati 2002. Berita Biol. 6:75-84). Based on surveys, these species are also sympatric in the degraded forest area in the buffer zone of Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park. On 31 May 2016, I observed an adult male C. chalconota in amplexus with an adult male L. kuhlii (Fig. 1) in a man-made water canal along a mountain stream in Cimumpang, Situ Gunung, West Java, Indonesia (6.8436°S, 106.9274°E; WGS 84; 920 m elev.) This is the first observation of interspecific male-male amplexus for both species. The more active male C. chalconota held the larger male L. kuhlii. Due to the process of forest degradation on ...

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... nematodes were deposited in the Harold W. Manter Parasitology Laboratory (HWML), The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA as Ophidascaris sp. (HWML 112292). Larvae of Ophidascaris sp. in C. guentheri is a new host record. ...