A NEW SPECIES OF FROG FROM NORTHEASTERN COLOMBIA (GENUS ELEUTHERODACTYLUS: LEPTODACTYLIDAE)

The East African rainforests are areas of prime biogeographical importance. The significance of the amphibian fauna of the region as a biogeographical indicator group, first recognized by SCHIOTZ (1981) is reiterated. SCHIOTZ' 1981 list of East African rainforest amphibians is corrected and updated. A new species of dwarf toad from the rainforest of the Uzungwe Mountains, Tanzania is described. The new species is tentatively assigned to the genus Nectophrynoides Noble 1926, and comment on the relationships of the new species and of the Nectophrynoides-Didynamipus group is included. It is suggested that many of the African bufonid genera, especially those including dwarf forms, are currently poorly defined; primitive characters, characters involving the loss of structures and characters subject to a high level of homoplasy often being used. Some possible solutions to this problem are given. The need for a better understanding of the biology of rainforest Amphibia, especially the dwarf species, is seen to b...

We describe a new species of frog in the microhylid genus MicrylettaDubois, 1987 from Northeast India based on molecular and morphological evidence. The new species, formally described as Micryletta aishani sp. nov., is phenotypically distinct from other congeners by a suite of morphological characters such as brown to reddish-brown dorsum; dorsal skin shagreened with minute spinules; snout shape nearly truncate in dorsal and ventral view; a prominent dark streak extending from tip of the snout up to the lower abdomen; ash-grey mottling along the margins of upper and lower lip extending up to the flanks, limb margins and dorsal surfaces of hand and foot; tibiotarsal articulation reaching up to the level of armpits; absence of outer metatarsal tubercles; and absence of webbing between toes. Phylogenetic relationships within the genus are inferred based on mitochondrial data and the new taxon is found to differ from all the recognised Micryletta species by 3.5–5.9% divergence in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA. The new species was found in the states of Assam, Manipur, and Tripura, from low to moderate elevation (30–800 m asl) regions lying south of River Brahmaputra and encompassing the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. The discovery validates the presence of genus Micryletta in Northeast India based on genetic evidence, consequently confirming the extension of its geographical range, westwards from Southeast Asia up to Northeast India. Further, for nomenclatural stability of two previously known species, Microhyla inornata (= Micryletta inornata) and Microhyla steinegeri (= Micryletta steinegeri), lectotypes are designated along with detailed descriptions.

The discovery of new vertebrate species in developed countries is still occurring at surprising rates for some taxonomic groups, especially the amphibians and reptiles. While this most often occurs in under-explored areas, it occasionally still happens in well-inhabited regions. We report such a case with the discovery and description of U. mahonyi sp. nov., a new species of frog from a highly populated region of New South Wales, Australia. We provide details of its morphology, calls, embryos and tadpoles, and phylogenetic relationships to other species of eastern Uperoleia. We also provide the results of targeted surveys to establish its distribution and provide observations of its habitat associations. As a consequence of these surveys, we comment on the likely restricted nature of the species' distribution and habitat, and place this in the context of a preliminary assessment of its putative conservation status, which should be assessed for listing under the IUCN's red list. We note this species, which is morphologically distinct, has gone unnoticed for many decades despite numerous ecological surveys for local development applications.

We describe a new species of frog from the eastern slopes of the Andes in central Peru. Pristimantis sirasp. nov. has a distinctive crossing mark on the iris and no tympanum. The new species is closely related to P. antisuyu Catenazzi & Lehr, 2018, P. cruciocularis Lehr, Lundberg, Aguilar & von May, 2006, and P. erythroinguinis Catenazzi & Lehr, 2018, but is easily differentiable by lacking colour blotches on groins. Pristimantis sirasp. nov. inhabits the mountain forests from 1550 to 2200 m a.s.l., inside a national reserve threatened by illegal mining.

Herein we describe a new species of toad (genus Incilius) from Cerro Bollo in western Panama. The new species is unusual among toads in being earless, having sexual dichromatism, hands and feet with webbed digits that lack tubercles, and hypertrophied testes. The type locality of the new species is separated from the type locality of its congener, I. peripatetes, by ∼100 kilometers.

A new species of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Leptodactylidae) is described from a cloud forest in western Departamento del Cauca, in Munchique National Park, sector La Romelia, between 2550 and 2750 m., and E. hectus is verified for the region.

García, Juan Carlos, Lynch, John D. (2006): A new species of frog (genus Eleutherodactylus) from a cloud forest in Western Colombia. Zootaxa 1171: 39-45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2645628

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of LondonVolume 53, Issue 1 p. 22-23 3. Description of a new Species of Frog from Asia Minor. G. A. Boulenger F.Z.S., G. A. Boulenger F.Z.S.Search for more papers by this author G. A. Boulenger F.Z.S., G. A. Boulenger F.Z.S.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1885 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1885.tb02882.xCitations: 4AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume53, Issue1January 1885Pages 22-23 RelatedInformation

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of LondonVolume 78, Issue 4 p. 786-788 Description of a new Species of Toad from Sumatra. Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, Geoffrey Meade-WaldoSearch for more papers by this author Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, Geoffrey Meade-WaldoSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1908 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1908.00786.x *Communicated by E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, F.Z.S. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume78, Issue4April 1908Pages 786-788 RelatedInformation

A new frog species from southern Vietnam of the family Megophryidae is described from the Ngoc Linh mountain (Kon Tum province, south Vietnam). Vibrissaphora sp. nov. is distinguished from other species of this genus by having the maximum number of keratinized maxillary spines, a different pattern of their arrangement and the most tuberculous integument. This new record is distant from the southernmost locality in the distribution of the Vibrissaphora genus for about 1000 km.

-A new species of bromeliad-dwelling frog from the Cordillera Central in northern Peru is most similar to E. bromeliaceus from the Cordillera Oriental in southern Ecuador and E. mendax from the Cordillera Oriental in southern Peru. The cool, moist, montane forests, the so-called cloud forests, on the slopes of the Andes are the haunts of many species of frogs. Species of the leptodactylid genus Eleutherodactylus are especially numerous in the cloud forests of Ecuador (Lynch, 1979; Lynch and Duellman, 1980). As many as 11 species occur sympatrically at the Rio Azuela at an elevation of 1740 m on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Ecuador (Lynch and Duellman, 1980), and 11 species are known from La Planada at an elevation of 1780 m on the Pacific slopes of the Andes in southern Colombia (Lynch and Burrowes, 1990). Compared with the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador, these forests in Peru have been thought to harbor a relatively depauperate Eleutherodactylus fauna. That the number of species of Eleutherodactylus thought to inhabit Peruvian cloud forests is an artifact of fieldwork is attested by the discovery of five new species in the Cosfiipata Valley in southern Peru (Duellman, 1978), eight species in the Cordillera de Huancabamba in northern Peru in 1979, and nine species in the Cordillera Central in the Departamento de Amazonas in northern Peru in 1989. Most of the species of Eleutherodactylus collected in northern Peru remain unnamed. Prior to my own fieldwork in the Departamento de Amazonas in 1989, Rainer Schulte of Tarapoto, Peru, collected some species of Eleutherodactylus there and sent specimens to the University of Kansas. In recognition of his herpetological efforts, I associate his name with one of the new species. Eleutherodactylus schultei sp. nov. Fig. 1 Holotype.-University of Kansas Museum of Natural History (KU) 212222, an adult male, one of a series from 5 km N Levanto (06?17'S, 77?51'W, elevation 2850 m), Provincia de Chachapoyas, Departamento de Amazonas, Peru, collected on 25 January 1989 by Fernando M. Cuadros, William E. Duellman, Michael E. Morrison, and John J. Wiens. Paratypes.-KU 212220-21, 212223-24, and Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad San Marcos (MHNJP) 6172-73, collected with the holotype; KU 209496-47 from the type locality collected on 21 July 1981 by Rainer Schulte and Segundo Sanchez Barrantes; and KU 209498504 from 5 km (by road) NW of Mendoza, ca. 2400 m, Provincia Rodriguez de Mendoza, Departamento de Amazonas, Peru, collected on 23 July 1981 by Rainer Schulte and Segundo Sanchez Barrantes. Diagnosis.-A species in the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group as defined by Lynch (1976) with the following characters (format of Lynch, 1979): (1) Skin of dorsum shagreened with low tubercles on forelimbs, eyelids, and in tympanic region; dorsolateral folds absent; skin on belly granular; (2) tympanum distinct; (3) snout acuminate in dorsal view, concave dorsally to tip and inclined posteroventrally in profile; (4) upper eyelid lacking prominent tubercles, 62.977.4% (x = 69.9 ? 3.79, N = 14) interorbital distance; cranial crests absent; (5) vomerine odontophores, if present, widely separated, oblique; (6) males with vocal slits but no nuptial pads; (7) first finger shorter than second; all fingers bearing discs, those on fingers as large as tympanum; (8) fingers bearing lateral keels; (9) antebrachial tubercle absent; row of low ulnar tubercles present; (10) heel and outer edge of tarsus bearing numerous low tubercles; (11) two metatarsal tubercles, inner ovoid, twice size of subconical outer tubercle; numerous supernumerary plantar tubercles; (12) toes bearing lateral keels; webbing absent; toepads equal in size to those on fingers; (13) dorsum tan, reddish brown, or green, bordered or not by narrow dark brown line from snout to point above vent; venter white; posterior surfaces of thighs uniform tan; (14) males 23.5-26.6 mm, females 28.4-34.0 mm SVL. Eleutherodactylus schultei differs in habitus and coloration from all other congeners in Ecuador and Peru, except four species, all of which are like E. schultei in having acuminate snouts in This content downloaded from 157.55.39.124 on Sat, 23 Jul 2016 05:24:27 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms NEW PERUVIAN ELEUTHERODACTYLUS

We describe three new species of frogs in the asterophryine microhylid genus Cophixalus from New Guinea's central cordillera. All three are characterized by their very small size (adult body length < 18 mm), reduced first fingers, narrow ridges on the dorsum, and having terminal discs on the fingers smaller than or the same size as those on the toes. They were found on the forest floor or on low vegetation in montane rainforest, where males called at night during or after heavy rain. Each of the new species is known only from one or two locations within a small area of central Papua New Guinea, although the extent of suitable habitat in the region suggests that their distributions may be broader. This study brings to 51 the number of described Cophixalus species known from the New Guinea region, but numerous additional undescribed forms reside in museum collections awaiting formal description, and others undoubtedly await discovery in their natural habitats.

Abstract: I describe a new species of frog of the Hylarana signata species complex from Mt. Busa, Sarangani and South Cotobato provinces, southern Mindanao Island, Philippines. The new species is distinguished from all other members of the H. signata complex by a unique combination of characters of external morphology, biochemical allelic variation, and the species’ position in phylogeny, estimated by analysis of multilocus DNA sequence data. Justification for recognition of the new species is further supported by marked sequence divergence in mitochondrial and nuclear genes. The new species has been collected only once in >20 yr despite targeted survey efforts on Mindanao, and multiple possible explanations are available to explain its extreme rarity. The recognition of this species, on the basis of a single previously misidentified specimen, accentuates the importance of collecting large sample sizes of specimens during faunistic surveys. Recognition of a new species from a locality that has now been h...

We describe a new species of frog of the genus Kaloula (family Microhylidae) from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia based on morphological evidence. The new species has previously been mistaken with K. baleata, which it most closely resembles. Kaloula indochinensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: maximum snout–vent length 53.7 mm; finger tips expanded into wide discs; the majority of specimens with two subarticular tubercles on the fourth toe; inner and outer metatarsal tubercle slightly raised, inner metatarsal tubercle shorter than first toe; absence of dorsolateral stripe; and large, bright, orange-yellow axillary and inguinal spots.

We describe a new species of frog in the dicroglossid genus Fejervarya from Ban Monjong, Omkoi District, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. Analysis of DNA sequence data from the mitochondrial gene 16S, advertisement calls, and morphological distinctiveness support recognition of the new species. Matrilineal genealogy suggests that the new population from Chiang Mai is a sister taxon to the South Asian clade that includes F. syhadrensis, F. granosa, and F. pierrei. The new species, Fejervarya chiangmaiensis sp. nov., differs morphologically from its congeners by its relatively small body size and proportions and the presence of dorsal warts and dermal ridges. Discovery of this new species indicates that the biodiversity of amphibians in this region remains underestimated.