Author : Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Book Synopsis A Second Species of the Family Allophrynidae (Amphibia, Anura) by : Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher
Download or read book A Second Species of the Family Allophrynidae (Amphibia, Anura) written by Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.