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Issue: Vol. 1618 No. 1: 19 Oct. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1618.1.3
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Phrynopus from Departamento Cusco, southern Peru(Anura: Brachycephalidae)

Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru. Plaza de Armas s/n (Paraninfo Universitario), Cusco, Peru
Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC. C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC. C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru. Plaza de Armas s/n (Paraninfo Universitario), Cusco, Peru
Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, D-01109 Dresden, Germany
Anura Andes Peru Phrynopus

Abstract

We describe a new species of Phrynopus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from two close localities at the upper limits of cloud forest in the southern Peruvian Departamento Cusco, between 3555–3950 m a.s.l. The new species is characterized by having medium size (maximum snout-vent length 23.4 mm), dentigerous processes of vomers absent, tympanic membrane inconspicuous, dorsal skin coarsely shagreen in life, dorsolateral folds, ventral skin areolate, dorsum tan, venter bold black with conspicuous bluish-gray spots, and a bluish-white iris.

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