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Issue: Vol. 2496 No. 1: 7 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2496.1.2
Page range: 38–48
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of a new species of Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 from the state of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil (Anura, Leiuperidae)

Museu de Zoologia "Prof. Adão José Cardoso", Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Caixa Postal 6109 Luís Felipe Toledo, Museu de Zoologia "Prof. Dr. Adão José Cardoso", Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-863 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Caixa Postal 6109
Departamento de Anatomia, Biologia Celular e Fisiologia, Instituto de Biologia (IB), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-863 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Present address: Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, (UESB), 42500-000 Jequié, Bahia, Brazil
Departamento de Anatomia, Biologia Celular e Fisiologia, Instituto de Biologia (IB), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-863 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Departamento de Anatomia, Biologia Celular e Fisiologia, Instituto de Biologia (IB), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-863 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Departamento de Anatomia, Biologia Celular e Fisiologia, Instituto de Biologia (IB), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-863 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), 13506-900 Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil
Amphibia Pseudopaludicola new species tadpole advertisement call karyotype

Abstract

We describe here a new species of Pseudopaludicola (P. murundu sp. nov.) that is found in the central portion of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This new species is related to P. saltica, from which it distinguishes by the presence of a single, dark, and subgular vocal sac with dark longitudinal folds in males, immaculate to light brown nuptial pads in males that cover the external part of the finger I, from the wrist to the second phalanx, and 11 pairs of chromosomes without heteromorphic sex chromosomes. From all other species of the genus it distinguishes by presenting very long hindlimbs, with tibio-tarsal articulation reaching beyond the end of the snout, and absence of T-shaped terminal phalanges. Tadpoles, advertisement call, and the karyotype are described as well.

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