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Issue: Vol. 4338 No. 1: 24 Oct. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-10-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.13
Page range: 195–200
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Rediscovery of the Endangered frog Phrynopus montium (Shreve, 1938) Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae) in the cloud forest of central Peru

Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Amphibia Amphibians Andes montane forest terrestrial breeding frogs

Abstract

Phrynopus montium (Shreve, 1938) was described from Cascas, Junín Department, Peru, at an undetermined elevation between 3000 and 4000 m a.s.l. in the Cordillera Central. With the exception of the type specimens used in the original description, no additional sightings of P. montium had been reported for 76 years. Additionally, its coloration in life, microhabitat use, and precise elevational distribution remained unknown. During a field expedition conducted in 2014, two individuals of P. montium were found at an upper cloud forest site in central Peru, 8.7 km south from Hacienda Cascas. Here, I describe the coloration in life, microhabitat use, and elevation of these individuals.

 

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