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Issue: Vol. 4532 No. 2: 18 Dec. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.2.2
Page range: 203–230
Abstract views: 149
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A new species of Phyzelaphryne Heyer, 1977 (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from the Japurá River basin, with a discussion of the diversity and distribution of the genus

Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados / Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Escola de Ciências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi / CZO, CP 399, Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, 66077-530 Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados / Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Escola de Ciências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados / Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Escola de Ciências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi / CZO, CP 399, Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, 66077-530 Belém, Pará, Brazil. Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Av. Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Jardim Eldorado, Diadema, CEP 09972-270, São Paulo, Brazil.
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi / CZO, CP 399, Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, 66077-530 Belém, Pará, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, R. Augusto Corrêa, 1, Guamá, Belém, 66075-110, Pará, Brazil.
Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West & 79th St., New York, NY 10024, USA.
Amphibia Amazonia Brazil conservation units DNA barcoding morphology Phyzelaphryninae Terrarana

Abstract

We describe and name the second species of Phyzelaphryne (Brachycephaloidea, Eleutherodactylidae), from northwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Phyzelaphryne nimio sp. nov. is distinguished from its only congener, Phyzelaphryne miriamae, by its smaller body size and the anatomy of the carpal and metacarpal regions, with relatively larger (sometimes fused) supernumerary carpal and metacarpal tubercles. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on fragments of the mitochondrial genes 16S rRNA and COI suggest that the currently known distribution of the species is restricted to its type locality and other areas within Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá, state of Amazonas, Brazil. Based on molecular, morphological and bioacoustic evidence, we assigned other specimens recently collected in Parque Nacional do Jaú, state of Amazonas, Brazil, to P. miriamae, extending the species’ known geographic distribution north of the Amazon River.

 

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