Catenazzi Alessandro, Ttito Alex
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, Lima, Perú.
PeerJ. 2018 Feb 27;6:e4444. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4444. eCollection 2018.
We describe a new species of small strabomantid frog (genus ) from a humid montane forest in the Peruvian Department of Puno. Specimens were collected at 2,225 m a.s.l. in the leaf litter of primary montane forest near Thiuni, along the Macusani-San Gabán road, in the province of Carabaya. The new species is assigned to on the basis of morphological similarity, including presence of a tubercle on the inner edge of the tarsus, and call composed of multiple notes. We also include genetic distances for 16S rRNA partial sequences between the new species and other strabomantid frogs. The species with lowest genetic distances are and sp. n. is readily distinguished from the three other species of (, , and ) by its small size, and by having belly and ventral surfaces of legs reddish-brown or red, and chest and throat brown to dark brown with a profusion of bluish-gray flecks. The new species is only known from its type locality. With the discovery of , the geographic distribution of is extended to the Department of Puno, where it was no longer represented after the description of the genus . Furthermore, the Cordillera de Carabaya is the only mountain range known to be home to four of the seven genera of Holoadeninae (, , , and ), suggesting an intriguing evolutionary history for this group in southern Peru.
我们描述了一种来自秘鲁普诺省潮湿山地森林的小型角蟾科新蛙种(属 )。标本采集于卡拉瓦亚省马库萨尼 - 圣加万公路沿线蒂乌尼附近海拔2225米的原始山地森林落叶层中。基于形态相似性,包括跗骨内缘有一个瘤以及叫声由多个音符组成,该新物种被归入 属。我们还列出了新物种与其他角蟾科蛙类16S rRNA部分序列的遗传距离。遗传距离最低的物种是 和 ,新物种很容易通过其小体型以及腹部和腿部腹面呈红棕色或红色,胸部和喉部为棕色至深棕色且有大量蓝灰色斑点与 属的其他三个物种( 、 和 )区分开来。该新物种仅在其模式产地被发现。随着 的发现, 的地理分布扩展到了普诺省,在该属被描述后这里就没有其分布记录了。此外,卡拉瓦亚山脉是已知的七个全腺蟾亚科属( 、 、 、 和 )中有四个属的唯一山脉,这表明该类群在秘鲁南部有着引人入胜的进化历史。