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Issue: Vol. 1938 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1938.1.4
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 1

A third species of the rare frog genus Holoaden (Terrarana, Strabomantidae) from a montane rainforest area of southeastern Brazil

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940–040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373 Bl. A, Cidade Universitária, 21941-902 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberta Alcântara Gomes, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberta Alcântara Gomes, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberta Alcântara Gomes, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Amphibia new species Atlantic Forest Holoaden Holoadeninae Strabomantidae

Abstract

A new species of the rare anuran genus Holoaden is described from a montane rainforest area in Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. The new species is characterized by its large body size, large head, moderately bulging dorsal glands, limbs long and slender, a deeply dark dorsal coloration, and dark ventral surface with a light abdominal blotch of variable size. The new species expands the range of the genus 200 km eastward in Brazil.

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