Evidence of full species status of the neotropical leaf-frog Phyllomedusa burmeisteri bahiana (A. Lutz, 1925) (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1113 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAN S.N. SILVA-FILHO ◽  
FLORA A. JUNCÁ
Keyword(s):  
Color Pattern ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Oral Disc ◽  
Temporal Characteristics ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Full Species

The full species status of Phyllomedusa burmeisteri bahiana was investigated based on tadpoles and vocalizations characteristics. We found distinct characteristics between the tadpoles and advertisement and territorial calls of the former and that of Phyllomedusa burmeisteri burmeisteri. The main tadpole differences are related with a skin projection protecting the spiracle, origin of dorsal fin, morphology of ventral fin and distribution of papillae on the oral disc. The advertisement call and territorial call of Phyllomedusa b. bahiana were different from the P. b. burmeisteri calls especially for the structure and temporal characteristics (pulses/second principally). The color of newly metamorphosed Phyllomedusa b. bahiana suggests that the color pattern of the internal sides of the thigh of P. b. burmeisteri can be related to a neotenic pattern of development. We elevate Phyllomedusa b. bahiana to species level based on morphological and acoustical traits decribed here.

The advertisement call of the Hoogmoed’s harlequin toad Atelopus hoogmoedi Lescure, 1974 from northern Brazil (Anura, Bufonidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4521 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
CARLOS EDUARDO COSTA-CAMPOS ◽  
THIAGO RIBEIRO DE CARVALHO
Keyword(s):  
French Guiana ◽  
Species Range ◽  
Amazon Rainforest ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Guiana Shield ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Full Species ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Northern Brazil

Harlequin toads (Atelopus) are distributed over a wide range in the Amazon Rainforest, mostly associated with streamlets in dense ombrophilous forests in lowland and sub-montane regions. Atelopus hoogmoedi Lescure, 1974a was considered as bearing full species status by Lötters et al. (2005), although until that moment this species had been assigned to a subspecies of A. pulcher (Boulenger, 1882) (Lescure 1974a, 1976) or of A. spumarius Cope, 1871 (Lescure et al. 1980; Lescure & Marty 2000; Lötters et al. 2002). More recently, Noonan & Gaucher (2005) subscribed to Lötters et al. (2005)’s statement that A. s. hoogmoedi should belong to a distinctive species (A. hoogmoedi), based on phylogeographic evidence. The species’ range is currently restricted to the Guiana Shield of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and in adjacent regions of northern Brazil (Lötters et al. 2005). 

scholarly journals Microglanis carlae, a new species of bumblebee catfish (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the río Paraguay basin in Paraguay

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor S. Vera Alcaraz ◽  
Weferson J. da Graça ◽  
Oscar A. Shibatta
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Fin Ray ◽  
Pectoral Spine ◽  
Adipose Fin ◽  
A New Species

Microglanis carlae, new species, is described from the río Paraguay basin and distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: paired and anal fins mottled or with thin faint bands, trunk with dark-brown saddles, anterior margin of pectoral spine with serrations retrorse proximally and antrorse distally, tip of pectoral spine as a distinct bony point, continuous portion of lateral line reaching vertical through last dorsal-fin ray, caudal peduncle with irregularly shaped, faint to dark blotch, maxillary barbel surpassing vertical through dorsal-spine origin, and dark bar on posterior flank continuous from base of adipose fin to that of anal fin. The new species is included in the Microglanis parahybae species complex on the basis of color pattern.

A new species of Leptodactylus Fitzinger (Anura, Leptodactylidae) from Serra do Brigadeiro, State of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1861 (1) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
ULISSES CARAMASCHI ◽  
RENATO N. FEIO ◽  
VINÍCIUS A. SÃO-PEDRO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Large Size ◽  
O 31 ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Leptodactylus belonging to the L. fuscus species group, and related to the L. mystaceus complex, is described from the Lagoa das Bromélias (20 o 53’S, 42 o 31’W; 1,227 m above sea level), Parque Estadual da Serra do Brigadeiro, Municipality of Ervália, State of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil. Leptodactylus cupreus sp. nov. is characterized by the large size for the group (SVL 50.1–55.1 mm in males) and color pattern. The new species has a non-pulsed advertisement call, with call rate about 12 calls/s and a dominant frequency between 2,800 and 3,058 Hz.

scholarly journals Hidden tribe: A new species of Stream Toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from the poorly explored mountainous borderlands of western Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 763-779
Author(s):  
Chatmongkon Suwannapoom ◽  
L. Lee Grismer ◽  
Parinya Pawangkhanant ◽  
Mali Naiduangchan ◽  
Platon V. Yushchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Sister Species ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

Abstract The integrated results of morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses confirmed the new species status of a recently discovered population of Ansonia from Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, Thailand. Ansonia karensp. nov. is separated from all other species of Ansonia by a unique combination of mensural, discrete morphological, and color pattern characteristics and is the sister species of A. thinthinae from Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar. This discovery fills a geographic hiatus of 350 km between it and A. kraensis from Ranong Province, Thailand. Ansonia karensp. nov. is the newest member of a long list of range-restricted endemics having been recently discovered in the northern Tenasserim Mountain region of western Thailand and continues to underscore the unexplored nature of this region and its need for conservation.

Unveiling species diversity in collared frogs through morphological and bioacoustic evidence: a new Mannophryne (Amphibia, Aromobatidae) from Sierra de Aroa, northwestern Venezuela, and an amended definition and call description of M. herminae (Boettger, 1893)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4461 (4) ◽  
pp. 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
FERNANDO J.M. ROJAS-RUNJAIC ◽  
MIGUEL E. MATTA-PEREIRA ◽  
ENRIQUE LA MARCA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Species diversity in collared frogs of the genus Mannophryne is presumed to be underestimated due to the paucity of external morphology characters, but combining morphology with bioacoustics and other lines of evidence has shown to be useful in delimiting species of this group. Herein we describe a new species of Mannophryne from Sierra de Aroa in northwestern Venezuela. The new species is morphologically similar to M. herminae but is readily recognized by its strikingly different advertisement call. It also can be distinguished from all its congeners by the unique combination of its small body size, general color pattern, basal toe webbing, and advertisement call consisting of long trills of single tonal notes emitted at a rate of 2–3 notes/s. Additionally, to facilitate future diagnosis of undescribed species related to M. herminae, we amend the definition of the latter, describe in detail its advertisement call, and redefine its known distribution range. The new species increases the number of described species of Mannophryne to 20. 

A new arc-striped species of Corydoras Lacépède, 1803 (Teleostei: Callichthyidae) from the Peruvian Amazon

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4948 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-200
Author(s):  
REBECCA FRANCES BENTLEY ◽  
STEVEN GRANT ◽  
LUIZ FERNANDO CASERTA TENCATT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
The Body ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Black Stripe ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Adaptive Value

A new Corydoras is described from the Blanco and Ucayali river basins in Peru. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by having the following features: (I) posterior margin of dorsal-fin spine with laminar serrations directed towards the origin of the spine; (II) a long, wide, arched, and continuous black stripe, which runs parallel to the dorsal profile of the body, extending at least from the region below anterior origin of dorsal fin to the anterior half of the ventral caudal-fin lobe; (III) a black stripe transversally crossing the eye, forming the typical mask-like blotch; mask clearly not fused to arched stripe in most specimens; some specimens with mask separated from arched stripe by a thin line around the suture between neurocranium (in the region composed by the posteroventral margin of parieto-supraoccipital plus the posterodorsal margin of the compound pterotic) and first dorsolateral body plate; (IV) posterior margin of pectoral-fin spine with laminar serrations directed towards the origin of the spine; (V) pointed snout, presenting a long mesethmoid, with anterior tip larger than 50% of the entire length of the bone; and (V) ventral surface of trunk covered by small, non-coalescent platelets. A discussion on the possible positive adaptive value of the arc-striped color pattern is also provided. 

Rhodeus flaviventris, a new bitterling (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Acheilognathinae) from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4790 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-340
Author(s):  
FAN LI ◽  
RYOICHI ARAI ◽  
TE-YU LIAO
Keyword(s):  
Poyang Lake ◽  
Yangtze River Basin ◽  
Major Axis ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Fin Rays ◽  
The Yangtze River Basin ◽  
Transverse Scale ◽  
A New Species

Rhodeus flaviventris, a new species, is described from the Le-An River, a tributary flowing into Poyang Lake in the Yangtze River basin, in Jiangxi Province, China. It is distinguished from all congeners by the combination of characters: branched dorsal-fin rays 9 (9–10); branched anal-fin rays 9 (9–10); longest simple rays of dorsal and anal fins thick and stiff; longitudinal scale series 33–34; transverse scale series 11 (10–12); pored scales 4–7; vertebrae 32–34; spindle-shaped eggs with major axis of 3.1–3.7 mm; color pattern of nuptial males (iris yellowish, belly yellow, central part of caudal fin orange, dorsal and anal fins with reddish-orange stripe). 

scholarly journals Nomenclatural changes in North American Phymatodes Mulsant (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2448 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN P. SWIFT ◽  
ANN M. RAY
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Introduced Species ◽  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Full Species

The following nomenclatural changes to the genus Phymatodes Mulsant, 1839 are proposed: P. juglandis Leng, 1890 = P. decussatus (LeConte, 1857); P. mohavensis Linsley and Chemsak, 1963 = P. nitidus LeConte, 1874; P. lecontei Linsley, 1938 (a replacement name) = P. grandis Casey, 1912; P. oregonensis Chemsak, 1963 = P. nigrescens Hardy and Preece, 1927; P. blandus picipes Linsley, 1934 and P. blandus propinquus Linsley, 1934 = P. blandus (LeConte, 1859); P. hirtellus densipennis Casey, 1912 and P. ursae Knull, 1940 = P. hirtellus (LeConte, 1873); P. decussatus australis Chemsak, 1963 and P. decussatus posticus Van Dyke, 1920 = P. obliquus Casey, 1891; P. frosti Casey, 1924, a valid name which has not previously been mentioned in the literature = P. dimidiatus (Kirby in Richardson, 1837); P. concolor Linsley, 1934 is afforded full species status; P. lividus (Rossi, 1794) is formally recorded as established in North America. A key and diagnoses for all native and introduced North American species are provided, which include the more recently described species, P. tysoni Linsley and Chemsak, 1984, and P. shareeae Cope, 1984, in addition to the introduced species P. lividus.

Anostomoides passionis, a new fish species from rio Xingu, Brasil (Characiformes: Anostomidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1168 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERALDO M.D. SANTOS ◽  
JANSEN ZUANON
Keyword(s):  
Stomach Contents ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
The Other ◽  
Congeneric Species ◽  
Lateral Line Scale ◽  
High Current ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Line Scale ◽  
A New Species ◽  
New Fish Species

We describe Anostomoides passionis, a new species of anostomid fish from rio Xingu. The species attains 306 mm SL and is distinguished from the other two congeneric species by the lateral line scale count (38–39, instead of 39–41 in A. atrianalis and 42–44 in A. laticeps) and by the color pattern: brownish-grey with two round to heart-shaped, dark blotches on the side (a larger one under the dorsal fin and another above the origin of the anal fin). Anostomoides passionis inhabits rocky stretches of the rio Xingu with moderate to high current. Stomach contents of two specimens of A. passionis caught during the low water season were composed mainly of fragments of sponges.

A revision of the western North Pacific swellsharks, genus Cephaloscyllium Gill 1862 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), including descriptions of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1872 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAYNA A. SCHAAF-DA SILVA ◽  
DAVID A. EBERT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Western North Pacific ◽  
Maximum Size ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Mouth Size

The genus Cephaloscyllium Gill 1862 (Chondrichthyes, Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae) until recently had only two species recognized, C. isabellum [= C. umbratile (Jordan & Fowler 1903)] and C. fasciatum Chan 1966, from the western North Pacific (WNP), with one dubious species, C. formosanum, having been described by Teng in 1962. Recently, three additional species were described, C. circulopullum Yano et al. 2005, C. sarawakensis Yano et al. 2005, and C. parvum Inoue & Nakaya 2006 from this region. Here we present a revision of this genus for the WNP, including redescriptions of C. fasciatum and C. umbratile based on the holotypes, a re-examination of the recently described species, and descriptions of two new species from Taiwan. Cephaloscyllium umbratile can be distinguished from its congeners based on maximum size, length of first dorsal-fin base, anal–caudal space, and dorsal–caudal space. We conclude, based on a comparison of C. parvum and C. sarawakensis, that the former is a junior synonym of the latter species. The two new Taiwanese species can be separated from other WNP species by color pattern, shape of the anterior nasal flap, anal and dorsal-fin size, internarial width, and mouth size. Finally, we present a revised dichotomous key to the WNP Cephaloscyllium recognizing six contemporary taxa: C. circulopullum, C. fasciatum, C. sarawakensis, C. umbratile, C. pardelotum sp. nov. and C. maculatum sp. nov.

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