The aim of present study was to initiate a database about the frogs in eight water bodies located in an open area and pronounced dry season. For that, were determined: richness and species diversity; the temporal and spatial distribution of adults and tadpoles; the similarity on the vocalization sites and in the males advertisement calls and the relation between heterogeneity descriptors and the richness of species. The field activities were developed trough september of 2003 to august of 2004,

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... monthly during the dry season and twice a month during the rainy season. During the studied period, 20 species of anuran were recorded in the studied area, distributed in nine genus of four families: Leptodactylidae (9), Hylidae (8), Microhylidae (2) and Bufonidae (1). From these, Bufo schneideri, Physalaemus centralis and Physalaemus fuscomaculatus were registered only by collection of tadpoles. The registered species are known by their ample geographic distribution and for colonize altered areas in other localities. There was no correlation between species richness and structural complexity of water bodies. However, the greater richness was registered in temporary environments of long duration. The preponderant use of long duration temporary water bodies is related, probably, to the less abundance of aquatic predators on those environments than in the permanent water bodies and to the less chance of desiccation than in water bodies of short duration. The temporary puddles of unstable hydroperiod were colonized initially by leptodactylids, while the permanent or temporaries puddles of stable hydroperiod were colonized by hylids. The vocalization and reproduction activity of most species was restricted to the warm and rainy period of the year, a typical pattern of communities in the tropical seasonal regions. Five species (Bufo schneideri, Hyla albopunctata, H. nana, Leptodactylus podicipinus and Pseudopaludicola aff. saltica) vocalized during the dry and rainy seasons, but only B. schneideri and H. albopunctata reproduced during the dry season. Most of the 12 analyzed species (75%; n = 9 species) was generalist in at least one of the vocalization site variable, what is characteristic of species inhabiting unpredictable habitats and/or altered by human activities. The segregation in the vocalization sites, registered in the most of the water bodies, is resulted from the low species richness on those environments, because in the water bodies with higher richness, overlapping occurred. In the remnant water bodies the