Title
Two new species of marsupial frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae) from the Central Andes of northern Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Instituto Peruano de Herpetología
Instituto Peruano de Herpetología
Publisher(s)
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Herpetologie, Und Terrarienkunde
Abstract
We describe two new species of Gastrotheca from the humid montane forests and grasslands of La Libertad and Amazonas departments, respectively, in the northern portion of the central Peruvian Andes. Our phylogenetic analysis recovered the new species as part of the Gastrotheca marsupiata species group and closely related to G. gemma, G. oresbios, G. psychrophila, G. spectabilis, G. stictopleura, and one undescribed species. The new species from La Libertad department can be differentiated from the aforementioned congeners by being of moderately small size (SVL = 33.3–41.9 mm, N = 3), having an acutely rounded snout in dorsal view, a rounded snout in lateral view, smooth skin on the dorsum with low granules, and smooth tympanic annulus and supratympanic fold. The new species from Amazonas department (SVL = 33.5–43.9 mm, N = 2) differs from other Gastrotheca species by having the dorsum covered with large and closely packed rounded pustules, two prominent paravertebral longitudinal pustular ridges, and a distinctly thick and elevated supratympanic fold extending from the top edge of the tympanum to the flank and being continuous or fused with the dorsolateral row of elongated pustules. In addition to external morphological characters, we include detailed descriptions and illustrations of the skeleton of the holotypes based on 3D models obtained from CT-scans.
Start page
1
End page
23
Volume
58
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85127388574
Source
Salamandra
ISSN of the container
00363375
Sponsor(s)
LYE is funded by a scholarship (number 88887.179352/2018-00) from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil and by a grant from The Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) Graduate Student Research Awards (2018). We are very grateful to Adolpho Herbert Augustin and Miriam Vianna from the Instituto do Petróleo e dos Recursos Naturais (IPR-PUCRS) for performing CT Scans and reconstructions. DJP was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship under Grants DGE-1315138 and DGE-1842473. SC-F received grants from CAPES (PrInt program grant #: 88887.508359/2020- 00) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, CNPq, Brazil (grant #: 314142/2020-7). PJV is grateful to Rainforest Partnership for funding his herpetological research during 2021. Specimens were collected under permit RDG Nº 179-2017-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS. LYE is funded by a scholarship (number 88887.179352/2018-00) from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nív-el Superior (CAPES), Brazil and by a grant from The Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) Graduate Student Research Awards (2018). We are very grateful to Adolpho Herbert Augustin and Miriam Vianna from the Instituto do Petróleo e dos Recursos Naturais (IPR-PUCRS) for performing CT Scans and reconstructions. DJP was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship under Grants DGE-1315138 and DGE-1842473. SC-F received grants from CAPES (PrInt program grant #: 88887.508359/2020-00) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, CNPq, Brazil (grant #: 314142/2020-7). PJV is grateful to Rainforest Partnership for funding his herpetological research during 2021. Specimens were collected under permit RDG Nº 179-2017-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS.
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