Title
Uncovering the diversity in the amazophrynella minuta complex: Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of amazophrynella (anura, bufonidae) from southern peru
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
de Carvalho V.T.
Ávila R.W.
Farias I.P.
Hrbek T.
Gordo M.
Evolutiva- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
A new species of the genus Amazophrynella (Anura, Bufonidae) is described from the departments of Madre de Dios, Cusco and Junin in Peru. An integrative taxonomy approach is used. A morphological diagnosis, morphometrics comparisons, description of the advertisement call, and the phylogenetic relationships of the new species are provided. Amazophrynella javierbustamantei sp. n. differs from other species of Amazophrynella by: intermediate body-size (snout-vent length 14.9 mm in males, n = 26 and 19.6 mm in females, n = 20), tuberculate skin texture of body, greatest hand length of the Amazophrynella spp. (3.6 mm in males, n = 26 and 4.6 mm in females, n = 20), venter coloration yellowish, tiny rounded black points covering the venter, and thirteen molecular autapomorphies in the 16S RNA gene. Its distribution varies from 215 to 708 m a.s.l. This discovery highlights the importance of the remnant forest in preserving the biodiversity in Peru, and increase in seven the species formally described in the genus Amazophrynella.
Start page
43
End page
71
Volume
2016
Issue
563
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84958541210
Source
ZooKeys
ISSN of the container
13132989
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus