Title
New localities, range extension, natural history, and conservation status of nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, lehr, rodriguez & aguilar, 2006)
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
García-Ayachi L.A.
Instituto Peruano de Herpetología
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
We provide information on the distribution, natural history, and conservation status of Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodriguez & Aguilar, 2006), a species from central Peru which is currently considered as Critically Endangered. We report four new localities and extend the altitudinal distribution by 430 m and the geographic range by 513 km in a straight line northwest of the previous, only known locality. Furthermore, based on our new data and following the criteria and categories of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, we suggest that N. mixomaculatus should be recategorized as Vulnerable.
Start page
407
End page
414
Volume
17
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85103004379
Source
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Sponsor(s)
We are especially grateful with the Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado, especially with the professional personnel of the Santuario Nacio-nal Cordillera de Colán: Christian Olivera, Jhonny D. Ramos, Gerlys Fernandez, and Abner García for logistic support. This research was made possible with the support of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (project number CEPF-109938) through the Fondo de Promoción de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas del Perú (PROFONANPE). We also thank the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (project number 0925417), Yunkawasi, and the Global Genome Initiative for their support. Our field work would not have been possible without the logistic support of the following people: Marco Salas of Ucumari, Fanny M. Cornejo of Yunkawasi, Odile Sanchez and Claudia Zarate of PROFONANPE. We thank to A. Marchelie for his photographs of Bosque Quemado. We also thank with Santiago Bullard, Axel Marchelie, Juan C. Chávez, and Jesús Ormeño for their company and field assistance. Finally, we are indebted with Alessandro Catenazzi and Fer-nando Angulo for the early review of the manuscript, and Juan M. Guayasamin for improved this article with his comments in the review process.
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