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A new, long-standing misidentified species of Psychrophrynella Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke from Departamento Cusco, Peru (Anura: Strabomantidae)

2008; Q15088586; Volume: 1823; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11646/zootaxa.1823.1.3

1175-5334

Ignacio De la Riva, Juan C. Chaparro, JOSÉ M. PADIAL,

Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

We present the description of a new species of the recently described genus Psychrophrynella. Hitherto, frogs of this new species were traditionally misidentified as Phrynopus peruvianus. The new species is known only from elevations of 3270–3450 m in the vicinity of the type locality in the Cordillera de Paucartambo, Departamento Cusco, Peru. It is unique within Psychrophrynella in having a marked, oblique inner tarsal tubercle. The geographically closest species Psychrophrynella bagrecito Lynch, also possesses a tarsal tubercle.