Review Article
Colors and Some Morphological Traits as Defensive Mechanisms
in Anurans
Table 1
Major categories and subcategories of colors used as
defensive strategies in post-metamorphic anurans.
| Major | 2nd major | 3rd major | Subcategories |
| | |
Eucrypsis | Visible
color spectrum mimesis | | Camouflage | Nonvisible
color spectrum mimesis | |
Mimesis | Cryptic
mimesis | | | Phaneric mimesis | Mimicry | |
Concrete
homotypy | Batesian
mimicry* | Homotypy | Browerian
mimicry* | |
Abstract
homotypy | Definable
model | | | Model
not definable* | |
Nondeceitful
homotypy | Müllerian
mimicry* | | Arithmetic mimicry |
| Deceptive
coloration | Behavioral
display of colors* | Polymorphism* | Polyphenism |
| Aposematism* |
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for where aposematic coloration may or must be present.
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