Title
A New Forest-Dwelling Frog Species of the Genus Adenomera (Leptodactylidae) from Northwestern Brazilian Amazonia
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
De Carvalho T.R.
Simões P.I.
Rojas-Runjaic F.J.M.
Haddad C.F.B.
Castroviejo-Fisher S.
Pontifícia Universidade Católica Do Rio Grande Do sul
Publisher(s)
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Abstract
We describe a new species of the South American frog genus Adenomera, based on external morphology, color patterns, advertisement call, and mtDNA sequences. The new species was collected from the Japurá River basin in northwestern Brazilian Amazonia and is distinguished from all congeners by the combination of large snout-vent length (SVL), toe tips unexpanded, presence of antebrachial tubercle on underside of forearm, and by a multi-note advertisement call composed of non-pulsed notes. This new species is part of the A. lutzi clade together with a candidate new species known as Adenomera sp. P and A. lutzi. The three species have the largest SVL in the genus. The presence of toe tips fully expanded and a single-note advertisement call distinguish A. lutzi from the new species. Acoustic and morphological data are still required to assess the taxonomic identity of Adenomera sp. P. Our new species of Adenomera is the third anuran species described from the Solimões-Japurá interfluve. This flags this poorly known region of lowland forests as an important area of species richness in northwestern Amazonia.
Start page
924
End page
937
Volume
108
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098932452
Source
Copeia
ISSN of the container
00458511
Sponsor(s)
We thank Ailton da Silva, Gutember Nascimento, José Gonc¸alves da Silva, and Raimundo N. L. da Silva for field assistance. We thank Elder Pena and the staff of Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservac¸ão da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) in Tefé for logistical support. This expedition was funded by the Programa de Excelência Acadêmica of Coordenac¸ão de Aperfeic¸oamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (PROEX-CAPES, project #1030/2014) and Programa de Áreas Protegi-das (ARPA) of ICMBio. All the contributors observed appropriate ethical and legal guidelines within conservation units in compliance with state and federal laws concerning the collection, transport, and euthanasia of animals for study procedures, regulated by the Brazilian government under the collecting permit (#57090-1) granted by RAN/ICMBio and ESEC Juami-Japurá/ICMBio. We received financial support through a research grant from São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP grant #2013/50741-7; CFBH). TRC is the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship (FAPESP #2017/ 08489-0); FJMRR, GGU, and SCF received scholarships from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq #42444/2014-6, #140716/ 2016-5, and #312744/2017-0, respectively). CFBH is the recipient of a research grant from CNPq. We thank Centro de Estudo de Insetos Sociais (CEIS) and Mariana L. Lyra for providing workspace and assistance with DNA sequencing protocols, and Juliane P. Monteiro and Pedro P. G. Taucce for their help in CFBH collection. We are grateful to Philippe J. R. Kok for making available sound recordings of A. lutzi. We thank curators and collection managers for granting access to specimens under their care.
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