A new species of terrestrially-nesting fanged frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.

Autor: Frederick JH; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America.; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America., Iskandar DT; Department of Biology, Institute of Technology Bandung, Java, Indonesia., Riyanto A; Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute of Sciences-LIPI, Java, Indonesia., Hamidy A; Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute of Sciences-LIPI, Java, Indonesia., Reilly SB; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America.; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America., Stubbs AL; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America.; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America., Bloch LM; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America.; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America., Bach B; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America.; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America., McGuire JA; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America.; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Dec 20; Vol. 18 (12), pp. e0292598. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 20 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292598
Abstrakt: Herein, we describe a new species of terrestrially-nesting fanged frog from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Though male nest attendance and terrestrial egg deposition is known in one other Sulawesi fanged frog (Limnonectes arathooni), the new species exhibits a derived reproductive mode unique to the Sulawesi assemblage; male frogs guard one or more clutches of eggs festooned to leaves or mossy boulders one to two meters above small slow-moving streams, trickles, or seeps. This island endemic has thus far been collected at three sites on Sulawesi: one in the Central Core of the island, and two on the Southwest Peninsula-south of the Tempe Depression (a major biogeographical boundary). The new Limnonectes has the smallest adult body size among its Sulawesi congeners-with a maximum snout-vent length of about 30 millimeters. Beyond its unique reproductive behavior and body size, the species is further diagnosed on the basis of advertisement call and genetic distance from sympatric fanged frogs. The discovery and description of the new species highlights the remarkable reproductive trait diversity that characterizes the Sulawesi fanged frog assemblage despite that most species in this radiation have yet to be formally described.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Frederick et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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