A new species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in south-eastern Peru

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2011 Australia, Spain English Publisher:Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde

Authors: De La Riva, Ignacio; Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago; Chaparro, Juan C.; Boistel, Renaud; Padial, José M.;

handle: 10261/117014

A new species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in south-eastern Peru

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We describe a new species of Atelopus from the Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in southern Peru. The new species is superficially similar to the northern Peruvian species A. pulcher and A. spumarius, but molecular markers place it in a different clade. In addition, it lacks a middle ear and has its dorsal skin covered with minute coni. The putative distribution of the new species includes the Andean piedmont in the departments of Cusco, Madre de Dios and Puno, encompassing an area of approximately 400 km in length and an altitudinal range of 400–1,000 m above sea level.

This paper was funded by projects CGL2005-03156 and CLG2008-04164 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (I. de la Riva, principal investigator).

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Australia, Spain

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Spanish National Research Council
Spain
James Cook University
Australia

Keywords

Amphibia, Systematics, Peru, Atelopus loettersi sp. n., A. pulcher, A. spumarius

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