Talk:Mannophryne trinitatis

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2022

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 August 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Hoonji2022 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Eylul.horozoglu, Rwolff26, Yunfeng Ge.

— Assignment last updated by CalJS (talk) 21:40, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

This entry contains good information and various topics, but it really needs to be more organized. The leading section is way too long. Lots of information appears in multiple sections and is redundant. Reference for the leading section is all at the end of the paragraph. Reference needs to be right after the related sentences. In description section, there are information about behaviors that should be moved to other sections. The description section is disproportionally longer than other sections, so I think more stuff can be added to other while the description section can be more concise.

What I changed:

I rephrased and reorganized the leading section. I deleted the bulk of the leading section and rewrote the leading section. Yunfeng Ge (talk) 22:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

This article contains a lot of basic information for the frog and is divided really well, but fails to go into any real detail about this frog. Going forward, here are some questions that could be answered to provide more in-depth analysis of the frog:

Description: why are females bigger than males? How did these differences arise between these frogs?

Distribution: How is this frog able to survive in such varying environments? How did this arise evolutionarily? Are all the frogs even with their morphological differences able to survive in varying conditions? Do the frogs need anything in particular to survive? What are the optimal conditions for this frog? If they are able to survive in so many different regions, why haven’t they moved out of their native region?

Population structure, speciation, and phylogeny: How did these frogs differentiate from each other (can maybe be connected to the environments they live in)? Why does the M.trinitatis display different karyotypes from other frog species?

Home range and territoriality: Why do adult females engage in territorial defense instead of the males? Why don’t the males partake in aggressive behavior?

Parental Care: What do the females do regarding parental care? It seems like the males primarily do the parental care? This is very different from most species so how did this arise? Also, do males mate with multiple females?

Enemies: Are there any other defense mechanisms present within this species (camouflage or aggressive behavior) How do the parasites function and how do they affect the frog

There wasn't much to change for the paper did not contain enough information per section for certain things to be moved. I shortened the abstract and deleted some information in the description and left a lot of suggestions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rwolff26 (talk • contribs) 04:41, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

I think the structure of this article was really good and followed the Wikipedia outline, likely because of the previous peer review edits. I added hyperlinks to terms that needed a bit more explanation. I also capitalized the headers and reworded some sentences that were grammatically incorrect. I also reworded sentences that used "we" to passive voice.

As an example, I changed the following phrase to the next phrase:

"Currently this species is listed as least concern on IUCN, but we have a lack of understanding of its distribution and it is subjecting to habitat loss."

"Currently this species is listed as of "Least Concern" on IUCN, but there is a general lack of understanding of its distribution, and it is also subjected to habitat loss."

Overall, the information on the page was well-structured, and it sets the foundations for further information to be written down under the headers.

Eylul.horozoglu (talk) 05:50, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

Lead

“Common habitats include rocky streams in moist montane forests” to “Trinidad poison frogs can be found in rocky streams in moist montane forests”

“and sexual dimorphisms in color and size” to “and is sexually dimorphic”

“and it is also subjected to habitat loss” to “The frog experiences habitat loss”

Description

“They normally display a cryptic coloration of a brown dorsal surface and dark or mottled flanks” to “Their dorsal surface is brown and dark and their flanks are mottled”

“Sexual dimorphism also occurs in the Trinidad poison frog” to “The Trinidad poison frog is sexually dimorphic”

“length while females” to “length. Females”

“37 mm under metamorphosis.” to “37 mm after metamorphosing.”

“The Mannophyryne trinitatis contains a well-defined and solid pigmented collar” to “The Mannophyryne trinitatis has a well-defined and solid pigmented collar

Could use more linking for the anatomical jargon or omittance all together (e.g. subarticular, tubercles, melanophores, inguinal)

Replaced scientific name with common name

Deleted all material on Mannophryne venezuelensis because the lead mentions it is a different species

Habitat and Distribution

“The Trinidad poison frog is only found in both the Paria Peninsula of Northern Venezuela and the Northern and Central Ranges of Trinidad”

Removed “Endemic to both regions” redundant

“can deposit eggs and develop their into tadpoles.”

“However, fFrogs will sometimes”

Conservation

“the IUCN Red List as of “least concern”, and”

“and frequent shifting cultivation from local shift agriculture techniques” redundant

“Additionally, unknown distributions populations of the frog’s biodiversity may be disappearing before they can be detected and described recorded due to slow  a lack of population genetics analyses on taxonomic diversity.”

“In oOne study from”

Population Structure, Speciation, and Phylogeny

Removed “The M. venezuelensis is the most recently-recognized frog species and has a distinct physical appearance with an unpigmented and undefined collar. The M. venezuelensis also has a much smaller body size and reduced foot webbing to distinguish itself from other frog species.” irrevelvant

Home Range and Territoriality

“The first involves nonreproductive regions where frogs will defend resource access to food, water, and shelter. The second involves large reproductive regions where frogs will defend against conspecific calling rivals during the breeding season.” Remove nonreproductive regions and reproductive regions and talk about resource and mate defense.

“Adult males, in contrast, defend”

Reproduction and Mating

“producing salient advertisement calls” flowery language

Removed “and the frequency depends on the species” irrelevant

Describe toe tip jumping

Parental Care

“Adult female Trinidad poison frogs lay their eggs near streams through oviposition following increased humidity from rainfall.”

“Such tadpole transportation does not incur significant costs on adult males in terms of reduced feeding, fat loss, or locomotion such as jumping.” Strange comparison

“However, mMales are unable”

Enemies

Minor spelling and grammar edits

Removed “To combat predation, male adult frogs will transport tadpoles away from streams on their backs and selectively deposit them into predator free pools to further grow their offspring.” Already mentioned

Good job keep going :) Elwhoelwu (talk) 23:47, 27 November 2022 (UTC)