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Issue: Vol. 3192 No. 1: 14 Feb. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-02-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3192.1.3
Page range: 39–48
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Andean cloud forests of northern Peru

Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú. Plaza de armas s/n (paraninfo universitario), Cusco, Perú
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Museu de Zoologia João Moojen, Vila Gianetti 32, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192, U.S.A.
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Colección de Herpetología, Arequipa, Perú
Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192, U.S.A.
Anura Andes new species Pristimantis crucifer Pristimantis eriphus Pristimantis flavobracatus Pristimantis leucorrhinus Pristimantis lucasi Terrarana

Abstract

We describe a new species of Pristimantis from cloud forests of the eastern versant of the Andes in northern Peru. Thetype locality lies in Quebrada del Vino, Provincia San Ignacio, Departamento Cajamarca, Peru. The new species is mostsimilar to P. crucifer, P. eriphus, P. flavobracatus, P. leucorrhinus, P. lucasi, and P. vilcabambae, with which it shares thepresence of large conical eyelid tubercles, ulnar tubercles, and heel and tarsal tubercles as well as flash colours on the groinsurrounded by bold black stripes and white stripes. The new species can nonetheless be distinguished from all of them by,having tympanic membrane and annulus, by males having nuptial pads and vocal slits, and by having finger discs scarcely enlarged and truncated with ungual flap not indented.

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