A new cryptic species of terrestrial breeding frog of the Pristimantisdanae Group (Anura, Strabomantidae) from montane forests in Ayacucho, Peru.

Autor: Herrera-Alva V; Departamento de Herpetología, Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima Peru.; Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima Peru., Catenazzi A; Florida International University, Department of Biological Sciences, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA Florida International University Miami United States of America., Aguilar-Puntriano C; Departamento de Herpetología, Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima Peru.; Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima Peru.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: ZooKeys [Zookeys] 2023 Dec 20; Vol. 1187, pp. 1-29. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 20 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1187.104536
Abstrakt: Based on morphological and molecular characters, we describe a new species of terrestrial breeding frog of the Pristimantisdanae Group from montane forests of La Mar Province, Ayacucho Department in southern Peru, at elevations from 1200 to 2000 m a.s.l. The phylogenetic analysis, based on concatenated sequences of gene fragments of 16S rRNA, RAG1, COI and TYR suggests that the new species is a sister taxon of a clade that includes one undescribed species of Pristimantis from Cusco, Pristimantispharangobates and Pristimantisrhabdolaemus . The new species is most similar to P.rhabdolaemus , which differs by lacking scapular tubercules and by its smaller size (17.0-18.6 mm in males [n = 5], 20.8-25.2 mm in females [n = 5] in the new species vs. 22.8-26.3 mm in males [n = 19], 26.0-31.9 mm in females [n = 30] of P.rhabdolaemus ). Additionally, we report the prevalence of Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis (Bd) in this species.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Valia Herrera-Alva, Alessandro Catenazzi, César Aguilar-Puntriano.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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