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Yermokhin M. V., Tabachishin V. G., Ivanov G. A. SIZE-WEIGHT AND SEXUAL STRUCTURE OF PELOPHILAX RIDIBUNDUS AND BOMBINA BOMBINA (AMPHIBIA, ANURA) POPULATIONS IN THE FLOODPLANE OF THE MEDVEDITSA RIVER (SARATOV REGION). Current Studies in Herpetology, 2017, vol. 17, iss. , pp. 10-?. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1814-6090-2017-17-1-2-10-20
SIZE-WEIGHT AND SEXUAL STRUCTURE OF PELOPHILAX RIDIBUNDUS AND BOMBINA BOMBINA (AMPHIBIA, ANURA) POPULATIONS IN THE FLOODPLANE OF THE MEDVEDITSA RIVER (SARATOV REGION)
The size, weight and sexual structure of Pelophylax ridibundus and Bombina bombina populations was analyzed during their spawning migrations in 2013 - 2015 in four lakes of the Medveditsa River flood-plane (Saratov Region, Lysogorsky District). The body length of Pelophylax ridibundus males ranged from 29.3 to 101.3 mm (the weight from 2.10 to 152.2 g), and that of females did from 36.1 to 120.2 mm (the weight from 4.45 to 181.0 g); for Bombina bombina males - from 25.4 to 50.6 mm (the weight from 1.06 to 8.5 g), and that of females from 32.1 to 49.7 mm (the weight from 2.64 to 8.43 g). No stable long-term trend of any decrease in the size and weight parameters in the studied amphibian species with a near-water life mode was observed, unlike predominantly terrestrial ones. The sexual dimorphism of P. ridibundus meant the predominance of females in size and weight parameters (from 9 to 14% in body length and from 32 to 67% in live weight), and that of B. bombina was more pronounced in body weight (from 6 to 96% in different years). The sex ratio in the population of P. ridibundus ranged from 1.96:1 to 4.13:1 with the predominance of males (their proportion gradually increases), and that in B. bombina ranged from the balanced one (1:1) to 1.73:1 (there was no stable trend of sexual structure changes).
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