Title
A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Juami River basin, northwestern Brazilian Amazonia
Date Issued
26 February 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
We describe a new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from northwestern Brazilian Amazon. Allobates juami sp. nov. is distinguished from similar congeneric species by the combination of the following characters: body-size range (snout-to-vent length 17.5–18.5 mm), lack of dark pigments on ventral surfaces of male specimens, dorsal color pattern (predominantly solid dark brown, but conspicuously light brown over snout and urostyle regions), presence of conspicuous pale dorsolateral and ventrolateral stripes, and presence of a diffuse pale paracloacal mark. The advertisement call of the new species lasts 2.5–5.1 s, contains 60–73 short notes (trills), and is emitted at an average rate of 13 notes per second within trills. Duration of silent intervals between notes ranges between 0.020–0.050 s, and the peak frequency of notes ranges from 4.59 to 5.47 kHz. The new species is currently known only from the type locality at Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá (1.96455° S, 67.93579° W; ~ 87 m a.s.l.).
Start page
109
End page
133
Volume
4387
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85042548932
PubMed ID
Source
Zootaxa
ISSN of the container
11755326
Sponsor(s)
We thank Janalee P. Caldwell, Igor Kaefer and Evan Twomey for the careful revision of this manuscript. We are grateful to Ailton Martins da Silva, Gutemberg de Morais Nascimento, José Gonçalves da Silva and Raimundo N. Lopes da Silva for field assistance. We thank Elder Pena and the ICMBio staff in Tefé for logistical support and for making our trip to the Juami River possible. The expedition to ESEC Juami-Japurá was funded with grants from Programa de Excelência Acadêmica of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (PROEX-CAPES, project #1030/2014), with additional funds from Programa de Áreas Protegidas of Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ARPA/ICMBio). Additional funding for fieldwork and sequencing prior to 2014 was provided to PIS by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—CNPq (CT-Amazônia/CT-Energ, proc. # 553997/2006-8; Programa Ciência sem Fronteiras, proc. #401327/2012-4). RAN/ICMBio and ESEC Juami-Japurá/ICMBio provided collecting permits (license #57090-1). PIS currently receives a post-doctoral fellowship from PNPD-CAPES through Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia of PUCRS. FJMRR and GGU are currently supported by PhD scholarships from CNPq.
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