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Snchez-Vialas A, Miarro M, Padial JM, Riva IDELA. Taxonomic reassessment and nomenclatural status of Niceforonia dolops and Hylodes philippi (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae). Zootaxa 2023; 5330:117-125. [PMID: 38220880 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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The taxonomic and nomenclatural status of Hylodes philippi and H. verrucosus have been in state of flux. Some problems regarding their identity were noticed in 1971, which were partly solved with the finding of the purportedly lost type of H. verrucosus in 2006 and the morphological revisions of both H. philippi and H. verrucous in 2008 and 2012, upon which they were considered conspecific and closely related to the Eleutherodactylus dolops group; H. verrucosus became a junior synonym of H. philippi, and the latter, a nomen dubium within Hypodactylus (later, Niceforonia). The reexamination of the type series of Eleutherodactylus dolops Lynch & Duellman, 1980 and the types of Hylodes verrucosus Jimnez de la Espada, 1875 and H. philippi Jimnez de la Espada, 1875, suggests that they are conspecific. Accordingly, Eleutherodactylus dolops is herein regarded as junior synonym of H. philippi and a new combination, Niceforonia philippi (Jimnez de la Espada, 1875), and a new diagnosis are granted. This species is known from a few scattered localities along the montane forest of the Amazonian versant of the Andes from Orellana and Napo provinces in northern Ecuador to Sibundoy in southwestern Colombia, and little to nothing is known about its natural history and population trends.
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- Alberto Snchez-Vialas
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); C/ Jos Gutirrez Abascal; 2. 28006; Madrid; Spain.
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); C/ Jos Gutirrez Abascal; 2. 28006; Madrid; Spain.
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- Department of Zoology; Faculty of Sciences; University of Granada; Av. De Fuente Nueva s/n; 18071 Granada; Spain.
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); C/ Jos Gutirrez Abascal; 2. 28006; Madrid; Spain.
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Franco-Mena D, Guayasamin JM, Andrade-Brito D, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Rojas-Runjaic FJM. Unveiling the evolutionary relationships and the high cryptic diversity in Andean rainfrogs (Craugastoridae: Pristimantis myersi group). PeerJ 2023; 11:e14715. [PMID: 36879909 PMCID: PMC9985417 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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Background Pristimantis is the most diverse genus of terrestrial frogs. Historically, it has been divided into several phenetic groups in order to facilitate species identification. However, in light of phylogenetic analysis, many of these groups have been shown to be non-monophyletic, denoting a high degree of morphological convergence and limited number of diagnostic traits. In this study, we focus on the Pristimantis myersi group, an assemblage of small rainfrogs distributed throughout the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, whose external morphology is highly conserved, and its species diversity and evolutionary relationships largely unknown. Methods We inferred a new phylogenetic hypothesis for the frog genus Pristimantis, including all available sequences of the mtDNA 16S rRNA, as well as new DNA sequences from 175 specimens. Our sampling included 19 of the 24 species currently recognized as part of the Pristimantis myersi group. Results Our new evolutionary hypothesis recovered the P. myersi group as non-monophyletic and composed of 16 species. Therefore, we exclude P. albujai, P. bicantus, P. sambalan, and P. nelsongalloi in order to preserve the monophyly of the group. We discovered at least eight candidate species, most of them hidden under the names of P. leoni, P. hectus, P. festae, P. gladiator, and P. ocreatus. Discussion Our results reveal the occurrence of a high level of cryptic diversity to the species level within the P. myersi group and highlight the need to redefine some of its species and reassess their conservation status. We suggest that the conservation status of six species within the group need to be re-evaluated because they exhibit smaller distributions than previously thought; these species are: P. festae, P. gladiator, P. hectus, P. leoni, P. ocreatus, and P. pyrrhomerus. Finally, given that the Pristimantis myersi group, as defined in this work, is monophyletic and morphologically diagnosable, and that Trachyphrynus is an available name for the clade containing P. myersi, we implement Trachyphrynus as a formal subgenus name for the Pristimantis myersi group.
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- Daniela Franco-Mena
- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Campus Cumbaya, Pichincha, Ecuador.,Facultad de Ciencias de Medio Ambiente, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Campus Cumbaya, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Campus Cumbaya, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- División de Herpetología, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INABIO, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle (MHNLS), Caracas, Venezuela.,Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), Belém, Pará, Brazil
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Venegas PJ, García-Ayachi LA, Ormeño J, Bullard S, Catenazzi A, Motta AP. Two new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) from Cordillera de Colán, Peru. NEOTROPICAL BIODIVERSITY 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2021.1953894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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- Pablo Javier Venegas
- Instituto Peruano de Herpetología (IPH), Lima, Per
- División de Herpetología, Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Lima, Per
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- Instituto Peruano de Herpetología (IPH), Lima, Per
- División de Herpetología, Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Lima, Per
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- Instituto Peruano de Herpetología (IPH), Lima, Per
- Huarango Nature – Conservamos Ica (CÓNICA). Ica, Per
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- Instituto Peruano de Herpetología (IPH), Lima, Per
- División de Herpetología, Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Lima, Per
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil
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Montero-Mendieta S, De la Riva I, Irisarri I, Leonard JA, Webster MT, Vilà C. Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of Oreobates (Anura: Craugastoridae) Neotropical frogs along elevational gradients. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2021; 161:107167. [PMID: 33798672 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Mountain ranges offer opportunities for understanding how species evolved and diversified across different environmental conditions. Neotropical frogs of the genus Oreobates (Anura: Craugastoridae) are adapted to highland and lowland habitats along the Andes, but many aspects of their evolution remain unknown. We studied their evolutionary history using ~18,000 exons enriched by targeted sequence-capture. Since capture success was very variable across samples, we evaluated to what degree differing data filtering produced robust inferences. The inferred evolutionary framework evidenced phylogenetic discordances among lowland species that can be explained by taxonomic misidentification or admixture of ancestral lineages. Highland species showed smaller effective populations than lowland frogs, probably due to greater habitat fragmentation in montane environments. Stronger genetic drift likely decreased the power of purifying selection and led to an increased proportion of nonsynonymous mutations in highland populations that could play an important role in their adaptation. Overall, our work sheds light on the evolutionary history and diversification of this group of Neotropical frogs along elevational gradients in the Andes as well as on their patterns of intraspecific diversity.
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- Santiago Montero-Mendieta
- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain.
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On the Identity of Species of Oreobates (Anura: Craugastoridae) from Central South America, with the Description of a New Species from Bolivia. J HERPETOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1670/20-001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Neves MO, Cabral H, Pedrozo M, Ferreira VL, Moura MR, Santana DJ. Dataset of occurrences and ecological traits of amphibians from Upper Paraguay River Basin, central South America. NATURE CONSERVATION 2020. [DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.41.54265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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There are many gaps in our biodiversity knowledge, especially in highly diverse regions such as the Neotropics. Basic information on species occurrence and traits are scattered throughout different literature sources, which makes it difficult to access data and ultimately delays advances in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. We provide species occurrence and trait data for amphibian species in the Upper Paraguay River Basin, central South America. The compiled information is made available through two different datasets that hold (i) 17K species occurrence records and (ii) 30 species-level traits for 113 amphibian species. The first dataset includes the species occurrence records and informs specimen id, collection of housing, locality, geographical coordinates, geographic accuracy, collection date, and collector name. The second dataset covers species-level attributes on morphometry, diet, activity, habitat, and breeding strategy. These datasets improve accessibility to spatial and trait data for amphibian species in the Pantanal ecoregion, one of the largest wetlands on Earth.
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Carvalho TRD, Moraes LJCL, Lima AP, Fouquet A, Peloso PLV, Pavan D, Drummond LO, Rodrigues MT, Giaretta AA, Gordo M, Neckel-Oliveira S, Haddad CFB. Systematics and historical biogeography of Neotropical foam-nesting frogs of the Adenomera heyeri clade (Leptodactylidae), with the description of six new Amazonian species. Zool J Linn Soc 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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A large proportion of the biodiversity of Amazonia, one of the most diverse rainforest areas in the world, is yet to be formally described. One such case is the Neotropical frog genus Adenomera. We here evaluate the species richness and historical biogeography of the Adenomera heyeri clade by integrating molecular phylogenetic and species delimitation analyses with morphological and acoustic data. Our results uncovered ten new candidate species with interfluve-associated distributions across Amazonia. In this study, six of these are formally named and described. The new species partly correspond to previously identified candidate lineages ‘sp. F’ and ‘sp. G’ and also to previously unreported lineages. Because of their rarity and unequal sampling effort of the A. heyeri clade across Amazonia, conservation assessments for the six newly described species are still premature. Regarding the biogeography of the A. heyeri clade, our data support a northern Amazonian origin with two independent dispersals into the South American Dry Diagonal. Although riverine barriers have a relevant role as environmental filters by isolating lineages in interfluves, dispersal rather than vicariance must have played a central role in the diversification of this frog clade.
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- Thiago R D Carvalho
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific (UOP), Stockton, CA, USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Ecosfera Consultoria e Pesquisa em Meio Ambiente, Ltda., São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual Norte Fluminense (UENF), Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Taxonomia e Sistemática de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia da Conservação and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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Reyes-Puig C, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Ortega JA, Ron SR. Relaciones filogenéticas del subgénero Hypodictyon (Anura: Strabomantidae: Pristimantis) con la descripción de tres especies nuevas de la región del Chocó. REV MEX BIODIVERS 2020. [DOI: 10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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A New Genus of Terrestrial-Breeding Frogs (Holoadeninae, Strabomantidae, Terrarana) from Southern Peru. DIVERSITY 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/d12050184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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We propose to erect a new genus of terrestrial-breeding frogs of the Terrarana clade to accommodate three species from the Province La Convención, Department of Cusco, Peru previously assigned to Bryophryne: B. flammiventris, B. gymnotis, and B. mancoinca. We examined types and specimens of most species, reviewed morphological and bioacoustic characteristics, and performed molecular analyses on the largest phylogeny of Bryophryne species to date. We performed phylogenetic analysis of a dataset of concatenated sequences from fragments of the 16S rRNA and 12S rRNA genes, the protein-coding gene cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), the nuclear protein-coding gene recombination-activating protein 1 (RAG1), and the tyrosinase precursor (Tyr). The three species are immediately distinguishable from all other species of Bryophryne by the presence of a tympanic membrane and annulus, and by males having median subgular vocal sacs and emitting advertisement calls. Our molecular phylogeny confirms that the three species belong to a new, distinct clade, which we name Qosqophryne, and that they are reciprocally monophyletic with species of Microkayla. These two genera (Qosqophryne and Microkayla) are more closely related to species of Noblella and Psychrophrynella than to species of Bryophryne. Although there are no known morphological synapomorphies for either Microkayla or Qosqophryne, the high endemism of their species, and the disjoint geographic distribution of the two genera, with a gap region of ~310 km by airline where both genera are absent, provide further support for Qosqophryne having long diverged from Microkayla. The exploration of high elevation moss and leaf litter habitats in the tropical Andes will contribute to increase knowledge of the diversity and phylogenetic relationships within Terrarana.
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The use of the "integrative approach" for classification of organisms since its formal establishment in 2005 has become a recurrent theme of zoosystematics. A bibliometric survey of the publications on integrative taxonomy of animals, which is aimed at exploring the most popular areas of research and characterizing the practical systematists' attitudes to this new approach, is presented. An analysis of 582 papers, which appeared between 2005 and 2017 in journals indexed by Scopus and the Web of Science Core Collection, has illustrated the gradual growth of the popularity of integrative taxonomy as well as some biases in the representation of higher taxa in "integrated" studies. It has been shown that the "integrative" papers have more chance of appearing in a top-ranking journal and gain relatively more citations as compared with non-integrative papers. The obtained results are discussed in the context of the "taxonomic impediment" problem thought to be a consequence of the institutional crisis of traditional taxonomy, which has been vividly debated over the past decades.
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- Maxim V Vinarski
- Laboratory of Macroecology and Biogeography of Invertebrates, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Guillory WX, French CM, Twomey EM, Chávez G, Prates I, von May R, De la Riva I, Lötters S, Reichle S, Serrano-Rojas SJ, Whitworth A, Brown JL. Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the Amazonian poison frog genus Ameerega using ultraconserved genomic elements. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 142:106638. [PMID: 31586688 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The Amazonian poison frog genus Ameerega is one of the largest yet most understudied of the brightly colored genera in the anuran family Dendrobatidae, with 30 described species ranging throughout tropical South America. Phylogenetic analyses of Ameerega are highly discordant, lacking consistency due to variation in data types and methods, and often with limited coverage of species diversity in the genus. Here, we present a comprehensive phylogenomic reconstruction of Ameerega, utilizing state-of-the-art sequence capture techniques and phylogenetic methods. We sequenced thousands of ultraconserved elements from over 100 tissue samples, representing almost every described Ameerega species, as well as undescribed cryptic diversity. We generated topologies using maximum likelihood and coalescent methods and compared the use of maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods for estimating divergence times. Our phylogenetic inference diverged strongly from those of previous studies, and we recommend steps to bring Ameerega taxonomy in line with the new phylogeny. We place several species in a phylogeny for the first time, as well as provide evidence for six potential candidate species. We estimate that Ameerega experienced a rapid radiation approximately 7-11 million years ago and that the ancestor of all Ameerega was likely an aposematic, montane species. This study underscores the utility of phylogenomic data in improving our understanding of the phylogeny of understudied clades and making novel inferences about their evolution.
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- Wilson X Guillory
- Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, 1125 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
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- Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, 1125 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA; Department of Biology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- División de Herpetología, Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Santa Rita N°105 36 Of. 202, Urb. Huertos de San Antonio, Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20560-0162, USA
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- Biology Program, California State University Channel Islands, 1 University Drive, Camarillo, CA 93012, USA
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biogeography, Universität Trier, Universitätsring 15, 54296, Trier, Germany
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, 1125 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
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Reyes-Puig JP, Reyes-Puig C, Ron S, Ortega JA, Guayasamin JM, Goodrum M, Recalde F, Vieira JJ, Koch C, Yánez-Muñoz MH. A new species of terrestrial frog of the genus Noblella Barbour, 1930 (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor, Tungurahua, Ecuador. PeerJ 2019; 7:e7405. [PMID: 31423356 PMCID: PMC6694786 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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We describe a new species of terrestrial frog of the genus Noblella from the eastern versants of the Ecuadorian Andes in the upper Pastaza watershed. Noblella naturetrekii sp. n. differs from its Ecuadorian congeners by the presence of a differentiated tympanic membrane and a weakly defined tympanic annulus, and eyelids with rounded tubercles. In addition, the new species is characterized by its blackish–dark brown ventral coloration scattered with little white dots and the absence of papillae at the tip of the fingers and toes. We provide a detailed description of the call and osteology of the new species. Finally, we present the most complete phylogeny of the genus, which confirms that Noblella is a non-monophyletic group.
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- Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig
- Fundación EcoMinga, Fundación Oscar Efren Reyes, Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador.,Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.,Instituto de Zoología Terrestre & Museo de Zoología, Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Campus Cumbayá, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Campus Cumbayá, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.,Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Fundación EcoMinga, Fundación Oscar Efren Reyes, Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador
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- Leibniz-Institut für Biodiversität der Tiere, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
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- Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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De Oliveira EA, Penhacek M, Guimarães KLA, do Nascimento GA, Rodrigues LRR, Hernández-Ruz EJ. Pristimantis in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon: DNA barcoding reveals underestimated diversity in a megadiverse genus. Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal 2019; 30:731-738. [PMID: 31264503 DOI: 10.1080/24701394.2019.1634696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The genus Pristimantis has the highest species diversity among all terrestrial vertebrates, with most species observed in the Andean region and the Guiana Shield. Even with the recent description of a new species, only P. latro, P. dundeei and P. zimmermanae occur in the south of the Amazon River. The lack of taxonomists specialized in the field leads to the propagation of dubious terminologies (e.g. Pristimantis sp1, Pristimantis sp2, P. aff. Fenestratus and P. gr. conspicillatus) or even misidentification of species, resulting in erroneous species distributions. In this study, we applied the Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery (ABGD) algorithm for the delimitation of candidate species and values of genetic distances using the mitochondrial marker Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I (COI), proposed in the barcode methodology, where values greater than 10% are considered as indicative of different species. We found large genetic distances between P. latro and Pristimantis sp1 Unconfirmed Candidate Species - UCS1 (21%), and between P. altamazonicus and Pristimantis sp2 UCS2 (14%). The ABGD method recognized UCS1 and UCS2 as distinct species. Pristimantis sp. UCS1 and UCS2 in the east of the Brazilian Amazon are indicated as candidate species. We suggest greater sampling of Pristimantis sp. UCS1 and UCS2, integrating morphology and bioacoustics to solve the taxonomic status in the east of the Brazilian Amazon.
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- Elciomar Araújo De Oliveira
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia da Rede BIONORTE, Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Manaus , Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais e Acervo Biológico da Amazônia Meridional - ABAM, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso , Sinop , Mato Grosso , Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Naturais da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará , Santarém , Pará , Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação, Campus Universitário de Altamira, Universidade Federal do Pará , Altamira , Pará , Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia da Rede BIONORTE, Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Manaus , Brazil.,Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Naturais da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará , Santarém , Pará , Brazil.,Laboratório de Genética e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Ciências da Educação, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará , Santarém , Pará , Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação, Campus Universitário de Altamira, Universidade Federal do Pará , Altamira , Pará , Brazil
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Phylogenetic relationships and cryptic species diversity in the Brazilian egg-brooding tree frog, genus Fritziana Mello-Leitão 1937 (Anura: Hemiphractidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 123:59-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Revised: 02/11/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Heinicke MP, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, McGrath K, Hedges SB. Phylogenomic support for evolutionary relationships of New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terraranae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 118:145-155. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Revised: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Catenazzi A, Ttito A, Diaz MI, Shepack A. Bryophryne phuyuhampatu sp. n., a new species of Cusco Andes frog from the cloud forest of the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae). Zookeys 2017:65-81. [PMID: 29089838 PMCID: PMC5646672 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.685.12152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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A new species of Bryophryne from the humid montane forest of the Department of Cusco, Peru, is described. Specimens were collected at 2795-2850 m a.s.l. in the Área de Conservación Privada Ukumari Llaqta, Quispillomayo valley, in the province of Paucartambo. The new species is readily distinguished from all other species of Bryophryne by having green coloration on dorsum, and blue flecks on flanks and ventral parts. Specimens are characterized by lacking a distinct tympanic annulus, tympanic membrane, and dentigerous processes of vomers, and by having dorsal skin shagreen, discontinuous dorsolateral folds, skin tuberculate on flanks, skin areolate on ventral surfaces of the body, and fingers and toes without lateral fringes or webbing. The new species has a snout-vent length of 14.2-16.9 mm in three males and 22.2-22.6 mm in two females, and is smaller than all other congeneric species except for B. abramalagae. Generic allocation is supported by low genetic distances of the 16S mitochondrial gene and morphological similarity with other species of Bryophryne, and geographic distribution. Bryophryne phuyuhampatusp. n. is only known from the type locality, a cloud forest along the Quispillomayo River in the upper Nusiniscato watershed.
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- Alessandro Catenazzi
- Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.,Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, Lima, Perú
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- Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Plaza de armas s/n (Paraninfo universitario), Cusco, Perú.,Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Urbanización Mariscal Gamarra A-61, Zona 2, Cusco, Perú
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- Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Plaza de armas s/n (Paraninfo universitario), Cusco, Perú.,Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Urbanización Mariscal Gamarra A-61, Zona 2, Cusco, Perú
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- Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
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Oliveira EAD, Rodrigues LR, Kaefer IL, Pinto KC, Hernández-Ruz EJ. A new species of Pristimantis from eastern Brazilian Amazonia (Anura, Craugastoridae). Zookeys 2017:101-129. [PMID: 29114168 PMCID: PMC5672576 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.687.13221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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In this study a new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) of the P. conspicillatus species group is described. Pristimantis latrosp. n. is known only from the municipalities of Altamira, Anapu, Brasil Novo, Medicilândia, Uruará and Aveiro (Flona Tapajós, right bank of Tapajós river), in Pará state, Brazil. Morphologically, the new species distinguishes from known congeners in the group mainly by the presence of dorsal tubercles and absence of discoidal folds, smooth belly skin, as well as the presence of supernumerary tubercles on hands. The call of the new species consists of seven ascending notes, the first of which has a dominant frequency of 2635 Hz and the last 3272 Hz. Molecular analysis of the 16S mtDNA indicates a genetic distance of 8% to P. chiastonotus, its closet relative, and between 9% and 11% to populations of P. fenestratus.
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- Elciomar Araújo De Oliveira
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia da Rede BIONORTE, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biociências, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Rua Vera Paz, s/n (Unidade Tapajós), CEP 68035-110, Santarém, Pará, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Biota Projetos e Consultoria Ambiental LTDA, Rua 86-C, 64, CEP 74083-360, Setor Sul, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação, Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Universitário de Altamira, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Coronel José Porfírio, 2515, CEP 68372-040, Altamira, Pará, Brazil
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De la Riva I, Chaparro JC, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Padial JM. Underestimated anuran radiations in the high Andes: five new species and a new genus of Holoadeninae, and their phylogenetic relationships (Anura: Craugastoridae). Zool J Linn Soc 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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AbstractDespite recent efforts to accelerate exploration and species description, the diversity of high Andean frogs remains highly underestimated. We report high levels of species diversity in direct-developing frogs or terraranas inhabiting the wet puna and adjacent cloud forests of the Amazonian versant of the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. Descriptive evidence of external morphology, distribution patterns and molecular phylogenetic analyses support the existence of nine unnamed species in two clades, which represents a 30% increase in species diversity for those clades. The relationships of these species and their relatives in Holoadeninae are tested using nuclear and mitochondrial genes for 159 terminals representing the 11 genera in this subfamily and 25 species of previously unknown relationships. Our results corroborate species monophyly in all but three cases and support the monophyly of all Holoadeninae genera, albeit the position of some differs between analyses. We propose a new genus (Microkayla gen. nov.) for the clade containing all Bolivian species formerly in Psychrophrynella plus five species from southern Peru. The new genus is monophyletic and supported by anatomical synapomorphies. Psychrophrynella is re-diagnosed and redefined to include three species from the Andes of southern Peru. We discuss the taxonomic instability associated with Noblella and Psychrophrynella due to the fact that the type species of both genera share a number of traits that support a close relationship. We also name and describe three new species of Bryophryne and two of Microkayla from Peru, provide baseline data for the future description of four Bolivian species of Microkayla, and describe the unknown mating calls of two species. Our results support that the grasslands of the Amazonian versant of the Andes harbour a large diversity of species with small altitudinal and horizontal distributions that replace each other along a latitudinal axis. These species belong to different lineages whose closest relatives are forest species, often from distant parts of the continent. These patterns suggest that high Andean environments were colonized several times independently by species with forest ancestors and which radiated into a multitude of species with remarkably similar ecomorphologies. The extent of these radiations remains obscured by a still rudimentary knowledge of species diversity due to insufficient fieldwork and taxonomic research.
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- Ignacio De la Riva
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC; C/José Gutiérrez Abascal, Madrid, Spain
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- Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Cusco, Peru
- Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
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- Lab. de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brasil
- Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, USA
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- Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, USA
- Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USA
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Jiménez-Robles O, Guayasamin JM, Ron SR, De la Riva I. Reproductive traits associated with species turnover of amphibians in Amazonia and its Andean slopes. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:2489-2500. [PMID: 28428841 PMCID: PMC5395459 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Revised: 01/22/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Assembly of ecological communities is important for the conservation of ecosystems, predicting perturbation impacts, and understanding the origin and loss of biodiversity. We tested how amphibian communities are assembled by neutral and niche-based mechanisms, such as habitat filtering. Species richness, β-diversities, and reproductive traits of amphibians were evaluated at local scale in seven habitats at different elevation and disturbance levels in Wisui Biological Station, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador, on the foothills of the Cordillera del Kutukú; and at regional scale using 109 localities across evergreen forests of Amazonia and its Andean slopes (0-3,900 m a.s.l.). At local scale, species composition showed strong differences among habitats, explained mainly by turnover. Reproductive modes occurred differently across habitats (e.g., prevalence of direct developers at high elevation, where breeding in ground level water disappears). At regional scale, elevation was the most important factor explaining the changes in species richness, reproductive trait occurrences, and biotic dissimilarities. Species number in all groups decreased with elevation except for those with lotic tadpoles and terrestrial reproduction stages. Seasonality, annual precipitation, and relative humidity partially explained the occurrence of some reproductive traits. Biotic dissimilarities were also mostly caused by turnover rather than nestedness and were particularly high in montane and foothill sites. Within lowlands, geographic distance explained more variability than elevation. Habitat filtering was supported by the different occurrence of reproductive traits according to elevation, water availability, and breeding microhabitats at both scales, as well as other assembly mechanisms based in biotic interactions at local scale. Human-generated land use changes in Amazonia and its Andean slopes reduce local amphibian biodiversity by alteration of primary forests and loss of their microhabitats and the interaction network that maintains their unique amphibian assemblages with different reproductive strategies.
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- Octavio Jiménez-Robles
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid Spain.,Zoology Department Universidad de Granada Granada Spain
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- BIÓSFERA Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales Universidad San Francisco de Quito Quito Ecuador.,Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático Ingeniería en Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos Facultad de Ciencias de Medio Ambiente Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica Quito Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Quito Ecuador
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- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid Spain
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Souza FL, Prado CP, Sugai JL, Ferreira VL, Aoki C, Landgref-Filho P, Strüssmann C, Ávila RW, Rodrigues DJ, Albuquerque NR, Terra J, Uetanabaro M, Béda AF, Piatti L, Kawashita-Ribeiro RA, Delatorre M, Faggioni GP, Demczuk SD, Duleba S. Diversidade de anfíbios do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. IHERINGIA. SERIE ZOOLOGIA 2017. [DOI: 10.1590/1678-4766e2017152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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RESUMO A fauna de anfíbios do estado de Mato Grosso do Sul foi compilada e elaborada pela primeira vez, totalizando 97 espécies, o que representa pouco mais de 10% das espécies que ocorrem no Brasil. Nove famílias e 25 gêneros de Anura e apenas uma espécie de Gymnophiona foram registradas. As áreas de Cerrado apresentaram a maior riqueza, seguidas pelas florestas estacionais semideciduais, Chaco e veredas. Em relação às macrorregiões consideradas, foram registradas 56 espécies para a planície de inundação (majoritariamente representada pelo Pantanal) e 92 para o planalto. As regiões mais amostradas em Mato Grosso do Sul são o Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena e algumas áreas do Pantanal, o que resulta em lacunas de amostragens por todo o estado, principalmente nas regiões norte, leste/sudeste e parte do oeste/sudoeste. Foram identificadas áreas consideradas importantes para amostragens em decorrência da complexidade de fitofisionomias e relevos encontrados no estado: Maciço do rio Apa, Serra de Maracaju, grande parte do Chaco brasileiro, leque do rio Taquari, planalto do Taquari-Itiquira, escarpas do planalto Central, áreas úmidas/florestas estacionais da planície do rio Paraná e áreas interioranas do Pantanal, onde o acesso é difícil.
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- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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Motta AP, Chaparro JC, Pombal, Jr. JP, Guayasamin JM, De la Riva I, Padial JM. Molecular Phylogenetics and Taxonomy of the Andean GenusLynchiusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke 2008 (Anura: Craugastoridae). HERPETOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 2016. [DOI: 10.1655/herpmonographs-d-16-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Rojas RR, Chaparro JC, Carvalho VTD, Ávila RW, Farias IP, Hrbek T, Gordo M. Uncovering the diversity in the Amazophrynella minuta complex: integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of Amazophrynella (Anura, Bufonidae) from southern Peru. Zookeys 2016; 563:43-71. [PMID: 27047239 PMCID: PMC4797212 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.563.6084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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A new species of the genus Amazophrynella (Anura, Bufonidae) is described from the departments of Madre de Dios, Cusco and Junin in Peru. An integrative taxonomy approach is used. A morphological diagnosis, morphometrics comparisons, description of the advertisement call, and the phylogenetic relationships of the new species are provided. Amazophrynella javierbustamantei sp. n. differs from other species of Amazophrynella by: intermediate body-size (snout-vent length 14.9 mm in males, n = 26 and 19.6 mm in females, n = 20), tuberculate skin texture of body, greatest hand length of the Amazophrynella spp. (3.6 mm in males, n = 26 and 4.6 mm in females, n = 20), venter coloration yellowish, tiny rounded black points covering the venter, and thirteen molecular autapomorphies in the 16S RNA gene. Its distribution varies from 215 to 708 m a.s.l. This discovery highlights the importance of the remnant forest in preserving the biodiversity in Peru, and increase in seven the species formally described in the genus Amazophrynella.
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- Rommel R. Rojas
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Genética Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Av. André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Brazil
- Laboratório de Genética e Evolução Animal, Departamento de Genética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, Manaus, Brazil
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- Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru
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- Laboratório de Genética e Evolução Animal, Departamento de Genética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, Manaus, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia, Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, Manaus, Brazil
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- Universidade Regional do Cariri, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Campus do Pimenta, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz, 1161, Bairro do Pimenta, Crato, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Genética e Evolução Animal, Departamento de Genética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, Manaus, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Genética e Evolução Animal, Departamento de Genética, ICB, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, Manaus, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, ICB, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, Manaus, Brazil
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Pereyra MO, Cardozo DE, Baldo J, Baldo D. Description and Phylogenetic Position of a New Species ofOreobates(Anura: Craugastoridae) from Northwestern Argentina. HERPETOLOGICA 2014. [DOI: 10.1655/herpetologica-d-13-00072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Peloso PL, Sturaro MJ, Forlani MC, Gaucher P, Motta AP, Wheeler WC. Phylogeny, Taxonomic Revision, and Character Evolution of the GeneraChiasmocleisandSyncope(Anura, Microhylidae) in Amazonia, with Descriptions of Three New Species. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2014. [DOI: 10.1206/834.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Catenazzi A, Lehr E, May RV. The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. BIOTA NEOTROPICA 2013. [DOI: 10.1590/s1676-06032013000400024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We compile a list of all amphibians and reptiles known to occur within Manu National Park, Peru and its buffer zone, located in one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. Covering approximately 0.01% of the planet's terrestrial surface, this protected area preserves 155 species of amphibians and 132 species of reptiles, corresponding to 2.2% and 1.5% respectively of the known diversity for these groups. Moreover, Manu National Park preserves natural habitats and populations of one critically endangered (Atelopus erythropus), three endangered (Bryophryne cophites, Pristimantis cosnipatae and Psychrophrynella usurpator), three vulnerable amphibians (Atelopus tricolor, Gastrotheca excubitor, Rhinella manu) and two vulnerable reptiles (Chelonoidis denticulata, Podocnemis unifilis), according to the threat categories of the IUCN Red List.
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Jungfer KH, Faivovich J, Padial JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Lyra MM, V. M. Berneck B, Iglesias PP, Kok PJR, MacCulloch RD, Rodrigues MT, Verdade VK, Torres Gastello CP, Chaparro JC, Valdujo PH, Reichle S, Moravec J, Gvoždík V, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Ernst R, De la Riva I, Means DB, Lima AP, Señaris JC, Wheeler WC, F. B. Haddad C. Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae:Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle. ZOOL SCR 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Karl-Heinz Jungfer
- División Herpetología; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’-CONICET; Angel Gallardo 470; C1405DJR; Buenos Aires; Argentina
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- Section of Amphibians and Reptiles; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; 4400 Forbes Avenue; Pittsburgh; PA; 15213-4080; USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade Estadual Paulista; Av. 24A 1515; CEP 13506-900; Rio Claro; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade Estadual Paulista; Av. 24A 1515; CEP 13506-900; Rio Claro; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires; IEGEBA-CONICET; Universidad de Buenos Aires; Ciudad Universitaria Pab. II; C1428EHA; Buenos Aires; Argentina
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- Department of Natural History; Royal Ontario Museum; 100 Queens Park; Toronto; ON; M5S 2C6; Canada
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; Caixa Postal 11461; CEP 05508-090; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas; Universidade Federal do ABC; Av. dos Estados; 5001; CEP 09210-971; Santo André; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Departamento de Herpetología; Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Av. Arenales 1256; Apto. 14-0434; Lima 14; Peru
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- Museo de Historia Natural; Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco; Cusco; Peru
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- Departamento de Ecologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; Rua do Matão, travessa 14; 05508-900; São Paulo; SP; Brazil
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- Fundación para la Conservación del Bosque Chiquitano; Av. Ejército Nacional No 160; Santa Cruz de la Sierra; Bolivia
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- Department of Zoology; National Museum; Prague 9; Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology; National Museum; Prague 9; Czech Republic
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- Programa de Investigación en Biodiversidad Amazónica del Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana; Av. Quiñonez Km 2.5; Iquitos; Perú
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- Museum für Tierkunde; Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden; Königsbrücker Landstr. 159; D-01109; Dresden; Germany
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- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC; C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2; 28006; Madrid; Spain
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- Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy; 1313 Milton Street; Tallahassee; FL; 32303; USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Caixa Postal 478; CEP 69011-970; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología y Genética de Poblaciones; Centro de Ecología; Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Apartado 21827; Caracas; 1020-A; Venezuela
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th Street; New York; NY; 10024-5192; USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade Estadual Paulista; Av. 24A 1515; CEP 13506-900; Rio Claro; São Paulo; Brazil
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