Three new species of Pristimantis (Lissamphibia, Anura) from montane forests of the Cordillera Yanachaga in Central Peru

Authors

  • William E. Duellman University of Kansas; Natural History Museum Biodiversity Research Center
  • S. Blair Hedges Pennsylvania State University; Department of Biology; 208 Mueller Laboratory

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v6i2p119-135

Keywords:

Anura, Pristimantis adiastolus sp. nov, Pristimantis albertus sp. nov, Pristimantis minutulus sp. nov, Phrynopus, species diversity, cryptic species, Andes, Yanachaga-Chemillén

Abstract

We describe three additional new species of Pristimantis from the Cordillera Yanachaga, a part of the Andes in central Peru. Analyses of DNA sequences of the mitochondrial rRNA genes show that one species is a close relative of P. bipunctatus (P. conspicillatus Group), another is a close relative of P. stictogaster (P. peruvianus Group), and the third is related to several species in the P. unistrigatus Group. The first two species are morphologically similar to their closest relatives but occur at lower elevations. Twenty-nine species of Pristimantis and Phrynopus are known from the vicinity of the Cordillera Yanachaga. The number of species, especially of Pristimantis, is high in the humid montane forest in comparison with other sites in humid montane forests in Peru, but the number is lower than on the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador.

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Published

2007-12-01

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2007)

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Articles

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All material originally published in Phyllomedusa belongs to Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz - Universidade de São Paulo. All contents are under a license of Creative Commons BY-NC-ND.

How to Cite

Duellman, W. E., & Hedges, S. B. (2007). Three new species of Pristimantis (Lissamphibia, Anura) from montane forests of the Cordillera Yanachaga in Central Peru. Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 6(2), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v6i2p119-135