Title
A second species of the family Allophrynidae (Amphibia, Anura)
Title Variants
Alternative:
New species of Allophrynidae
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3739
By
Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago, 1979-
Peréz-Peña, Pedro E.
Padial, José M.
Guayasamin, Juan M.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
[New York], American Museum of Natural History, c2012
Notes
Caption title.
"March 9, 2012."
We describe Allophryne resplendens, a new species from two localities in the Amazon rainforest of Loreto, Peru, of the family Allophrynidae, which was monotypic until this discovery. The new species can be readily differentiated from Allophryne ruthveni on the basis of dorsal and ventral coloration both in life and in preservative, transverse processes of presacral II oriented anterolaterally (oriented laterally in A. ruthveni), 19 nucleotide autapomorphies for 761 base pairs (bp) of the mitochondrial gene 16S, and 16 for 923 bp of 12S. Maximum parsimony analysis of the mitochondrial gene 12S and a fragment of up to 1060 bp of 16S supports the new species as sister to A. ruthveni.
Subjects
Allophryne
,
Allophryne resplendens
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Amphibians
,
Classification
,
Frogs
,
Loreto (Department)
,
Peru
,
Rain forest animals
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3739 2012
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
779627038
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