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Issue: Vol. 4441 No. 1: 26 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.5
Page range: 89–108
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A new cryptic species of Oreobates (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the seasonally dry tropical forest of central Brazil

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Escola de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Biológicas, and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais e Saúde,74605-010, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
Laboratório de Herpetologia e Comportamento Animal, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás. Campus Samambaia, CEP 74001-970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Répteis e Anfíbios—RAN/ICMBio, 74605-090, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Amphibia Brachycephaloidea Cerrado biome Integrative taxonomy Terrarana

Abstract

A new species of Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 is described from the seasonally dry tropical forest associated to rocky outcrops of the northeastern Goiás State, Central Brazil. Oreobates antrum sp. nov. is diagnosable by the combination of morphological characters (e.g. small size, dorsal and ventral skin texture smooth to finely shagreened, and broadly enlarged truncate discs on Fingers III and IV), call attributes (composed of a single note and no harmonics with dominant frequency ranged 2070 Hz to 3273 Hz), and supported by molecular evidence (phylogenetic position and genetic divergence) with high degree of differentiation among other Oreobates species (divergences of 4.0–20.6% for 12S, 7.0–14% for 16S, 0.7–4.0% for RAG-1, and 1.1–8.0% for TYR). The new species was recovered as the sister of Oreobates remotus.

 

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