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Issue: Vol. 2798 No. 1: 23 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2798.1.6
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

DNA taxonomy reveals two new species records of Hyalinobatrachium (Anura: Centrolenidae) for Bolivia

Instituto de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Carrera 1 Este # 18A-10, Bogotá, Colombia Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, 10024-5192 New York, U.S.A.
Department of Zoology, National Museum, 11579 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural – Colección Boliviana de Fauna, Casilla 8706, La Paz, Bolivia
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural – Colección Boliviana de Fauna, Casilla 8706, La Paz, Bolivia
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural – Colección Boliviana de Fauna, Casilla 8706, La Paz, Bolivia
Amphibia Anura Centrolenidae

Abstract

We collected two specimens of the genus Hyalinobatrachium during fieldwork expeditions to the Departamento Pando—the northernmost region of Bolivia situated in the south-western Amazonian basin, within the zone of tall evergreen lowland rainforest. The specimens are deposited in the Colección Boliviana de Fauna, La Paz (CBF 6453) and in the National Museum, Prague (NMP6V 74059). Because species identification within Hyalinobatrachium based only on morphological characters is in many cases problematic (Kok & Castroviejo-Fisher 2008; Castroviejo-Fisher et al. 2009), we took advantage of published sequences of Hyalinobatrachium to identify our samples. Our results show that each specimen belongs to a different species (H. mondolfii and H. munozorum), none of them previously known to occur in Bolivia. The taxonomic implications of our discovery are briefly discussed.

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