A NEW SPECIES OF GLASS FROG (ANURA: CENTROLENIDAE) FROM THE VENEZUELAN GUAYANA
2003; Herpetologists' League; Volume: 59; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1655/0018-0831(2003)059[0247
ISSN1938-5099
AutoresWilliam E. Duellman, J. Celsa Señaris,
Tópico(s)Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
ResumoA new species of Centrolene is named from the La Escalera Region in Estado Bo- livar, Venezuela. The three species known from the Guianan Region of northeastern South America represent a single clade characterized by a white bib-like parietal peritoneum; this clade is referred to as the Centrolene gorzulai species group. Centrolenella auyantepuiana is placed in the synonymy of Centrolene gorzulai. GLASS frogs of the genus Centrolene are most diverse in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Only two named spe- cies have been recognized in the Guayana Highlands—C. gorzulai from the summit of Auyan-tepui at 1850 m above sea level in Estado Bolivar, Venezuela (Ayarza- guena, 1992) and C. papillahallicum from the Pacaraima Mountains in western Guy- ana at 600 m above sea level (Noonan and Harvey, 2000). A single specimen of a third species was reported from the La Es- calera Region in Estado Bolivar, Venezue- la, by Duellman (1997); this specimen was not named at the time because it had not been compared with C. gorzulai. We have now made the necessary comparisons and provide a description of a new species. M
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