Grupo de Investigación de Biodiversidad y Conservación; Museo Historia Natural Luis Gonzalo Andrade; Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia; Tunja; Boyacá; Colombia..
Wildlife Conservation Society Colombia; Bogotá; Colombia..
Zootaxa. 2023 Apr 14;5264(3):341-354. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.3.
The lack of basic natural history and distributional data represents a challenge for the conservation of rare and endemic amphibian species. This is the case of "Centrolene" acanthidiocephalum, a poorly known glassfrog endemic to the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes. This species was formally described in the late 1980s and no records have been reported over the last quarter century. Therefore, little is known about its distributional boundaries, morphological variation, natural history, and evolutionary relationships. Here we report the finding of a population of "Centrolene" acanthidiocephalum from a locality around its historical range and provide additional information on its geographic distribution, clutch size, and adult morphology. We also present for the first time data on tadpole morphology, as well as a description of its advertisement call and a phylogenetic tree based on mitochondrial genetic data corroborating its generic position within Centrolene.
缺乏基本的自然历史和分布数据,这对保护珍稀和特有两栖动物物种构成了挑战。这就是“Centrolene”acanthidiocephalum 的情况,它是一种知之甚少的玻璃蛙,仅分布于哥伦比亚安第斯山脉的东科迪勒拉山脉。该物种于 20 世纪 80 年代末正式描述,但在过去的四分之一个世纪中没有报告任何记录。因此,人们对其分布范围、形态变异、自然历史和进化关系知之甚少。在这里,我们报告了在其历史分布范围内的一个“Centrolene”acanthidiocephalum 种群的发现,并提供了有关其地理分布、卵囊大小和成年形态的更多信息。我们还首次提供了关于蝌蚪形态的数据,以及其广告叫声的描述,并基于线粒体遗传数据构建了一个系统发育树,证实了它在 Centrolene 中的属位置。