Title
Species limits within the widespread amazonian treefrog Dendropsophus parviceps with descriptions of two new species (anura, hylidae)
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
The genus Dendropsophus is one of the most speciose among Neotropical anurans and its number of described species is increasing. Herein, molecular, morphological, and bioacoustic evidence are combined to assess species limits within D. parviceps, a widely distributed species in the Amazon Basin. Phylogenetic relationships were assessed using 3040 bp sequences of mitochondrial DNA, genes 12S, ND1, and CO1. The phylogeny shows three well-supported clades. Bioacoustic and morphological divergence is congruent with those clades demonstrating that Dendropsophus parviceps is a species complex. Dendropsophus parviceps sensu stricto occurs in the Amazon basin of Ecuador, northern Peru, southern Colombia and northwestern Brazil. It is sister to two previously undescribed species, D. kubricki sp. n. from central Peru and D. kamagarini sp. n. from southern Peru, northeastern Bolivia, and northwestern Brazil. Genetic distances (uncorrected p, gene 12S) between D. parviceps and the new species is 3 to 4%. Dendropsophus kamagarini sp. n. can be distinguished from D. parviceps by having a prominent conical tubercle on the distal edge of the upper eyelid (tubercle absent in D. parviceps). Dendropsophus kubricki sp. n. differs from D. parviceps by having scattered low tubercles on the upper eyelids (smooth in D. parviceps). Dendropsophus parviceps and both new species differ from all their congeners by their small size (adult maximum SVL = 28.39 mm in females, 22.73 mm in males) and by having a bright orange blotch on the hidden areas of the shanks and under arms. The advertisement call of the two new species has lower dominant frequency relative to D. parviceps. Probable speciation modes are discussed. Available evidence indicates that ecological speciation along an elevation gradient is unlikely in this species complex.
Start page
25
End page
77
Volume
2018
Issue
726
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85040726370
Source
ZooKeys
ISSN of the container
13132989
Sponsor(s)
This research was funded by grants from Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación del Ecuador (SENESCYT, Arca de Noé Initiative; O. Torres-Carvajal and S. R. Ron Principal Investigators), and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. We thank for assistance in the fieldwork and laboratory Fernando Ayala, Teresa Camacho, Diana Flores, Andrea Manzano, María Eugenia Ordóñez, Daniela Pareja, Diego Paucar, Diana Pazmiño, Ítalo Tapia, and Eduardo Toral. Special thanks to Teresa Camacho-Badani and Arturo Muñoz from Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny, Cochabamba, Bolivia, for their help to document Bolivian records. We thank Albertina P. Lima for providing records of Brazilian localities from Rio Madeira and Ramal do Purupuru of D. kamagarini and D. parviceps, respectively. Centro de Estudos Integrados da Biodiversidade Amazônica (CENBAM) and Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade (PPBio) supported the collection of data in both of these localities. For shar ...
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