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Issue: Vol. 3437 No. 1: 24 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3437.1.1
Page range: 1–23
Abstract views: 41
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Two new species of marsupial tree-frogs genus Gastrotheca Fitzinger, 1843 (Anura, Hemiphractidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, Brazil Department of Biology, The City University of New York, 526 Marshak Science Building, City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, Brazil
Department of Biology, The City University of New York, 526 Marshak Science Building, City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA
Department of Biology, The City University of New York, 526 Marshak Science Building, City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA
University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720–3140, USA
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, Brazil
Amphibia Reserva Biológica da Mata Escura Estação Ecológica Estadual de Wenceslau Guimarães Jequitinhonha River Atlantic Forest refuges

Abstract

Two new species of Gastrotheca are described from northeastern Minas Gerais and southern Bahia, in the Atlantic Forestof Brazil. Data on morphology, calls, mitochondrial, and nuclear DNA are provided. Allied to G. fissipes and G.megacephala, the new taxa provide evidence for a higher diversity of species of Gastrotheca than previously thought atthe Atlantic Forest. The data also suggest that G. pulchra, another Atlantic Forest taxon, is more closely related to non-Atlantic Forest species than to the remaining analyzed Brazilian Gastrotheca species. This implies that the Gastrotheca at the Brazilian coastal forests have at least two independent origins.

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