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Two New Species of Ecuadorian Eleutherodactylus (Leptodactylidae) of the E. crucifer Assembly

1988; The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1564354

1937-2418

Glenn Flores,

Species Distribution and Climate Change

Eleutherodactylus rosadoi, new species, is named from a lowland locality in Provincia Esmeraldas, Ecuador. It had previously been confused with E. roseus (Boulenger), a species which occurs only in the central Chocoan lowlands of Colombia. Eleutherodactylus katoptroides, new species, is de- scribed from a lower montane rainforest locality in Provincia Pastaza, on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes of Ecuador. It had been previously confused with E. crucifer (Boulenger), which is known only from three cloud forest localities on the Pacific slopes of the Andes of Ecuador. Both of the new species are members of the E. crucifer assembly of the unistrigatus group. The relationships of the two new species within the crucifer assembly are unclear. Both of the new species have color patterns identical to particular crucifer assembly species, but differ markedly from those particular species morphologically, and the problems this presents in interpreting relationships is explored.