Title
A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Amazonian forest of Loreto, Peru
Date Issued
26 August 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Castroviejo-Fisher S.
Rojas-Runjaic F.J.M.
Jaramillo A.F.
Solís S.
Simões P.I.
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
We describe a new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Amazonian forest of Loreto, Peru using morphological, acoustic and genetic data. Our phylogenetic analysis placed Allobates sieggreenae sp. nov. as the sister species of A. trilineatus, the most similar-looking species and with which it was previously confused. However, the new species has a brown dorsum, solid dark brown lateral dark stripe not fading towards groin, adult males with few and sparse melanophores over a cream background on chin, chest, and belly, dark transverse bars absent on thighs, and an advertisement call formed by a trill of single notes (in A. trilineatus dorsum dark brown, blackish brown lateral dark stripe, paler from mid-body to groin, adult males with a dark background color on chin, chest, and belly due to a dense layer of melanophores, dark transverse bar present on dorsal surface of thighs, and trills of paired notes). Allobates sieggreenae is known from two localities of Amazonian white-sand forest ecosystems east of the Ucayali River.
Start page
375
End page
404
Volume
5026
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85113796341
PubMed ID
Source
Zootaxa
ISSN of the container
11755326
Sponsor(s)
We thank the following people and institutions for access to the study sites and climatic data under their care: Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana – IIAP (Luis Campos Baca, Dennis del Castillo, Ricardo Farroñay, Ximena Tagle, Jhon Del Aguila) and CEDIA (Lelis Rivera, David Rivera, Luis Trevejo and Tatiana Jarama). We are thankful to the workers of Centro de Investigaciones Jenaro-Herrera and the villagers of Frontera community for their help and hospitality in the field. We thank Ehiko Rios, Ramón Aguilar, Layné Guerra, and José Manuel Padial for their hard work during field expeditions. We thank Pedro Pérez Peña and Cesar Aguilar Puntriano for granting us access to herpetological collections under their care (CRBIIAP and MUSM, respectively). Juliano Romanzini helped with specimens housed at MCP. Mirco Solé, Andreas Kindel, Pedro Maria de Abreu Ferreira, Evan Twomey, and two anonymous reviewers improved previous drafts of the manuscript. Expeditions to Loreto were funded with grants from Programa de Excelência Acadêmica of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (PROEX-CAPES, project #1030/2014). ASG Perú helped us with field equipment. Collection, transportation, lab procedures and international shipment of specimens were authorized by permits RDG #152-2018-MINAGRI/SERFOR-DGGSPFFS, and #002-2018-SERNANP-RNAM-JEF, provided by Servicio Forestal and Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, respectively. PIS received a post-doctoral fellowship from PNPD-CAPES through Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade of PUCRS while conducting fieldwork related to this study. AFJ and GGU received PhD scholarships from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-CAPES (Finance Code 001) and the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, processes 140716/2016-5), respectively.
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