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Issue: Vol. 3388 No. 1: 13 Jul. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-07-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3388.1.5
Page range: 56–68
Abstract views: 43
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A new, high-elevation glassfrog (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Manu National Park, southern Peru

Department of Integrative Biology, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA current address: Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA
Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Nanay 373, Iquitos, Peru
Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y el Cambio Climático, Calle Machala y Sabanilla, Cotocollao, Quito, Ecuador
Amphibia Centrolene new species Andes

Abstract

We describe a new species of glassfrog from the cloud forest of Manu National Park, southern Peru, at elevations of 2750–2800m. The new species is similar in morphology to Centrolene lemniscatum, which occurs in northern Peru at elevations of2000–2280 m. Both species have white labial stripes, humeral spines, and lack vomerine teeth. The new species differs from C.lemniscatum by its larger size, labial stripe extending into a distinct lateral stripe instead of a discontinuous lateral stripe, snoutprofile inclined anteroventrally instead of bluntly rounded, greater depression in the internarial area, and by having stronglyprotruding nostrils. Males of the new species emit long calls with 8–14 peaked notes, instead of a short tonal note in C. lemnis-catum. Another morphologically similar species, C. buckleyi, has a short advertisement call composed of 1–5 notes, and isgenetically distinct from the new species. This new Centrolene extends the known distribution of Centrolene to the south by 600 km, and is the southernmost species of this genus.

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