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Issue: Vol. 4422 No. 3: 24 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.3.3
Page range: 366–384
Abstract views: 216
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Systematics of the frogs allocated to Sarcohyla bistincta sensu lato (Cope, 1877), with description of a new species from Western Mexico

Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA.
Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
Department of Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Departamento de Biología Evolutiva and Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán, Cd. De México, C. P. 04510, México D.F., México.
Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Unidad Académica de Turismo, Cordinación de Investigación y Posgrado, Ciudad de la Cultura s/n, 63000 Tepic, Nayarit, México.
Departamento de Biología Evolutiva and Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán, Cd. De México, C. P. 04510, México D.F., México.
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, UNAM, Batalla 5 de Mayo s/n, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa, Cd. De México, C.P. 09230, México D.F., México.
Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA.
Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA.
Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA.
Amphibia

Abstract

A new species of hylid frog is described from the southwestern edge of the Mexican Plateau from the states of Morelos and Mexico through Michoacán and Jalisco, reaching the Sierra Madre Occidental in Sinaloa and western Durango. The new species is part of the widespread Mexican hylid Sarcohyla bistincta (sensu amplo) complex, comprised of S. bistincta, S. pentheter, S. calthula, and S. ephemera. One subspecies of S. bistincta (labeculata) was proposed for an isolated population in Oaxaca. We restrict the group’s nominal species, S. bistincta (sensu stricto), to the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico and southward into the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and Oaxaca. Examination of type material places S. calthula and S. ephemera in the synonymy of S. labeculata (new combination). The species allied to S. bistincta, namely, S. bistincta, S. labeculata, S. pentheter, and the new species described herein, are diagnosed and described following recent suggested taxonomic changes and new available material.

 

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