A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands

We describe a new, medium-sized species of terrestrial frog of the genus Phrynopus from a single locality in the central Andes of Peru (Departamento de Huánuco) at 3,730 meters of elevation. Phylogenetic analyses supported Phrynopus remotum sp. nov. as an independent lineage, sister to most of its c...

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Autores principales: Chávez, Germán, García Ayachi, Luis Alberto, Catenazzi, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Biodiversity
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32612895
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9433
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author Chávez, Germán
García Ayachi, Luis Alberto
Catenazzi, Alessandro
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description We describe a new, medium-sized species of terrestrial frog of the genus Phrynopus from a single locality in the central Andes of Peru (Departamento de Huánuco) at 3,730 meters of elevation. Phylogenetic analyses supported Phrynopus remotum sp. nov. as an independent lineage, sister to most of its congeners. The new species is morphologically distinguishable by the presence of small tubercles on upper eyelids and heels, an areolate venter, and the absence of dorsolateral folds or ridges. This species inhabits the highlands adjacent to the Marañón Dry valley. The only sympatric amphibian species recorded is the marsupial frog Gastrotheca peruana.
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spelling pubmed-73207232020-06-30 A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands Chávez, Germán García Ayachi, Luis Alberto Catenazzi, Alessandro PeerJ Biodiversity We describe a new, medium-sized species of terrestrial frog of the genus Phrynopus from a single locality in the central Andes of Peru (Departamento de Huánuco) at 3,730 meters of elevation. Phylogenetic analyses supported Phrynopus remotum sp. nov. as an independent lineage, sister to most of its congeners. The new species is morphologically distinguishable by the presence of small tubercles on upper eyelids and heels, an areolate venter, and the absence of dorsolateral folds or ridges. This species inhabits the highlands adjacent to the Marañón Dry valley. The only sympatric amphibian species recorded is the marsupial frog Gastrotheca peruana. PeerJ Inc. 2020-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7320723/ /pubmed/32612895 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9433 Text en ©2020 Chávez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Biodiversity
Chávez, Germán
García Ayachi, Luis Alberto
Catenazzi, Alessandro
A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands
title A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands
title_full A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands
title_fullStr A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands
title_full_unstemmed A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands
title_short A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands
title_sort new species of frog (terrarana, strabomantidae, phrynopus) from the peruvian andean grasslands
topic Biodiversity
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32612895
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9433
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