A new species of Pristimantis (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from a montane forest of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru.

ABSTRACT: Herpetological inventories conducted in the Pui Pui Protected Forest in the central Peruvian Andes between 2012 and 2014 revealed unusually high local anuran richness and endemism. Herein, we describe a new species of Pristimantis discovered in the buffer zone of the protected area between 1550 and 1730 m a.s.l. The description is based on one subadult male (snout-vent length 14.4 mm), one adult female (snout-vent length 26.4 mm), and six juvenile specimens collected in the montane forest between 1550 and 1730 m a.s.l. DNA barcoding placed P.vrazi sp. nov. as the sister taxon to P.rhabdocnemus and in the clade also containing P.lindae, P.sinschi, P.quaquaversus, and one still unnamed Pristimantis species. Pristimantisvrazi s

SUBMITTER: Lehr E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11621819 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature