A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura, Brachycephalidae) from the coast of Santa Catarina State, southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4407 (4) ◽  
pp. 483 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIANE PETRY DE CARLI MONTEIRO ◽  
THAIS HELENA CONDEZ ◽  
PAULO CHRISTIANO DE ANCHIETTA GARCIA ◽  
ESTEVÃO JASPER COMITTI ◽  
IVAN BOREL AMARAL ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
First Record ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Body Color ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Dark Green ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of Brachycephalus from municipality of São Francisco do Sul and municipality of Itapoá, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, southern Atlantic Forest. The new species is known from six localities from near sea level up to 250 meters and represents the first record of a “pumpkin-toadlet” occurring in the lowlands. Morphological traits and phylogenetic analysis of a fragment the 16S mtDNA gene place the new species in the Brachycephalus pernix group. The new species is supported by external morphology, osteology, advertisement call, and mtDNA divergence. It is characterized, among other traits by a dorsal body color dark green with a dark brown vertebral stripe, and an orange background; snout-vent length of 9.2–10.8 mm in males and 11.1–12.4 mm in females; and advertisement call short (0.02–0.03 seconds), composed of one high-frequency note (dominant frequency 6.6–7.3 kHz). We observed synchronized alternation in the emission of vocalizations among neighbor males, indicating that males of the new species are able to hear and use vocalizations to interact with each other. We provide descriptions of clutch, eggs, and juvenile and observations on parental care. The new species has not been recorded within any protected area and can be threatened by human-induced habitat loss and modification. 

A new species of Phyllodytes Wagler, 1830 (Anura, Hylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4238 (1) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
EUVALDO MARCIANO-JR ◽  
AMANDA SANTIAGO F. LANTYER-SILVA ◽  
MIRCO SOLÉ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Harmonic Structure ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Southern Bahia ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northeastern Atlantic

We describe a new species of Phyllodytes from Ilhéus (15º04’S, 39º03’W; 95 m above sea level), south of state of Bahia, in the northeastern Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Phyllodytes megatympanum sp. nov. is diagnosable by the following combination of characters: (1) dorsum of body, arms, and legs uniformly light brown; (2) groin yellow; (3) snout pointed in dorsal view, protruding in profile; (4) tympanum large with a round distinct tympanic annulus; (5) adult males with two anterior large odontoids followed by a series of smaller odontoids on each side of the mandible; (6) well-developed tubercle near tibio-tarsal joint; (7) advertisement call composed of a series of 12 to 19 unpulsed notes, with harmonic structure and (8) mean dominant frequency of 3.98 kHz. 

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.

A new species of Paratelmatobius (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Paratelmatobiinae) from the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4648 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCUS THADEU TEIXEIRA SANTOS ◽  
SÍLVIA HELENA DE OLIVEIRA ◽  
THIAGO RIBEIRO DE CARVALHO ◽  
BÁRBARA FERNANDES ZAIDAN ◽  
NELSON RODRIGUES DA SILVA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Reproductive Activity ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Paratelmatobius is described from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil. Adults, tadpoles, and vocalizations are described. Morphological traits and phylogenetic analysis place the new species within the P. cardosoi group. The new species can be readily distinguished from its congeners by its advertisement call being composed of two note types and comprised of a series of 2–4 notes. The new species is classified as an explosive breeder, having reproductive activity strongly associated with heavy rainfall. This discovery highlights the importance of intensifying survey efforts in the Atlantic Forest, a domain with high levels of species richness and endemism. 

scholarly journals A new species of Amazonian snouted treefrog (Hylidae:Scinax) with description of a novel species-habitat association for an aquatic breeding frog

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miquéias Ferrão ◽  
Rafael de Fraga ◽  
Jiří Moravec ◽  
Igor L. Kaefer ◽  
Albertina P. Lima
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Abundance ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Lateral View ◽  
Habitat Associations ◽  
Brown Spot ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Habitat Association ◽  
Dark Brown Spot ◽  
A New Species

The genusScinaxis one of the most specious genera of treefrogs of the family Hylidae. Despite the high number of potential new species ofScinaxrevealed in recent studies, the rate of species descriptions for Amazonia has been low in the last decade. A potential cause of this low rate may be the existence of morphologically cryptic species. Describing new species may not only impact the taxonomy and systematics of a group of organisms but also benefit other fields of biology. Ecological studies conducted in megadiverse regions, such as Amazonia, often meet challenging questions concerning insufficient knowledge of organismal alpha taxonomy. Due to that, detecting species-habitat associations is dependent on our ability to properly identify species. In this study, we first provide a description of a new species (including its tadpoles) of the genusScinaxdistributed along heterogeneous landscapes in southern Amazonia; and secondly assess the influence of environmental heterogeneity on the new species’ abundance and distribution.Scinax ruberoculatussp. nov. differs from all nominal congeners by its small size (SVL 22.6–25.9 mm in males and 25.4–27.5 mm in females), by having a dark brown spot on the head and scapular region shaped mainly like the mothCopiopteryx semiramis(or a human molar in lateral view, or a triangle), bicolored reddish and grey iris, snout truncate in dorsal view, bilobate vocal sac in males, by its advertisement call consisting of a single pulsed note with duration of 0.134–0.331 s, 10–23 pulses per note, and dominant frequency 1,809–1,895 Hz. Both occurrence and abundance of the new species are significantly influenced by silt content in the soil. This finding brings the first evidence that edaphic factors influence species-habitat association in Amazonian aquatic breeding frogs.

A new species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) from Rocky Montane Fields in Southeastern and Central Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2269 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADRIANA PUGLIESE ◽  
DÉLIO BAÊTA ◽  
JOSÉ P. POMBAL, JR.
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Lateral View ◽  
Brown Spot ◽  
Inguinal Region ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Tree Frog ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of tree frog of the Scinax ruber clade from rocky field mountains in the states of Goiás and Minas Gerais in central and southeastern Brazil. Scinax rogerioi sp. nov. is characterized by medium size (SVL males 25.0–35.6 mm; females 28.0–34.5 mm); snout protruding in lateral view and almost subovoid in dorsal view; loreal region concave; adhesive discs on fingers medium-sized, wider than long; interrupted, irregular dark brown blotches on dorsum from behind eyes to inguinal region from head to inguinal region; inverted brown triangular interocular blotch; brown spot in loreal region; advertisement call is a multipulsed note, with 6 to 12 pulses (interval between pulses 0.02 to 0.03s), and a dominant frequency of 1.38 to 3.19 kHz. Description of the advertisement call and data on natural history are provided.

A First Record of Freziera (Pentaphylacaceae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with the Description of a New Species

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1075-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Paulo F. Zorzanelli ◽  
Tatiana T. Carrijo ◽  
Pedro Fiaschi ◽  
Jomar G. Jardim ◽  
Daniel Santamaría-Aguillar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
First Record ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
A New Species

A new species and southernmost record of Cestrus Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4822 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
FERNANDA A. SUPELETO ◽  
BERNARDO F. SANTOS ◽  
ALEXANDRE P. AGUIAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dorsal Valve ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Apical Margin ◽  
Yellow Stripe ◽  
A New Species

Cestrus itatiensis sp. nov., from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, is described and illustrated. This is the southernmost record for the genus and the first record in Brazil. The new species is characterized by having the body reddish brown; a narrow yellow stripe along eye margin on supra-clypeal area, reaching briefly the supra-antennal area; transverse carina of propodeum complete and stout; postpetiole and T2–8 progressively dark brown towards apical margin in a somewhat triangular pattern; and apex of dorsal valve of ovipositor with nine distinct teeth. Extensive sampling suggest this is a rare species. 

Psychrolutes sio, a new psychrolutid fish (Scorpaeniformes) from the southeastern Pacific

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph S. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Color ◽  
Large Specimen ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Southeastern Pacific ◽  
A New Species

Psychrolutes sio, a new species of Psychrolutidae from off northernmost Chile, is described from two specimens trawled at about 770–1150 m. The holotype is deposited in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO 72-184). The only large specimen, the 22.9-cm holotype, differs most conspicuously from the other two species of the genus Psychrolutes in having the head and body color a uniform brown, skin thin, lateral line pores in small but distinct tubes, and jaws equal. Psychrolutes sio represents the first record of the genus Psychrolutes to be recognized from the Southern Hemisphere. However, future studies may indicate that other southern psychrolutids of the genera Neophrynichthys and Cottunculoides should also be assigned to Psychrolutes.

scholarly journals A new heligmonellid (Nematoda) species of the genus Stilestrongylus in Euryoryzomys russatus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) in the Atlantic Forest, southern Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.G. Boullosa ◽  
R.O. Simões ◽  
B.E. Andrade-Silva ◽  
R. Gentile ◽  
A. Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Small Intestine ◽  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Body Length ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Spicule Length ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Caudal Bursa

AbstractA new species of Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda: Heligmonellidae), Stilestrongylus rolandoi n. sp., is described from specimens collected from the small intestine of the rodent Euryoryzomys russatus in the Atlantic Forest (Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil). The genus Stilestrongylus includes 23 species, which parasitize rodents occurring in the Neotropical region. Stilestrongylus aureus (Durette-Desset & Sutton, 1985) from Argentina, S. azarai (Durette-Desset & Sutton, 1985) from Argentina, S. flavescens (Sutton & Durette-Desset, 1991) from Uruguay, S. franciscanus (Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2002) from Argentina, S. gracielae (Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2006) from Argentina, and S. oryzomysi (Sutton & Durette-Desset, 1991) from Argentina are closely related to Stilestrongylus rolandoi n. sp., all having caudal bursa patterns of types 1–4 in one of the lobes. Stilestrongylus rolandoi n. sp. is distinguished from the aforementioned species by its ray 6 being short in relation to rays 4 and 5, which are long and robust, and by having caudal bursa patterns of types 1–4 in both lobes. The new species has 27 ridges in the mid-body in males, and 24 in females, and has one of the highest ratios of spicule length to body length (21−33%) in this genus.

scholarly journals A new nurse frog (Anura: Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e9979
Author(s):  
Jesus R.D. Souza ◽  
Miquéias Ferrão ◽  
James Hanken ◽  
Albertina P. Lima
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
The State ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Advertisement Calls ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
Adult Morphology ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Single Locality

Nurse frogs (Aromobatidae: Allobates) are probably the most extensively studied genus by taxonomists in Brazilian Amazonia. The southwestern portion of Amazonia is the most species-rich: as many as seven species may occur in sympatry at a single locality. In this study, we describe a new species of nurse frog from this region. The description integrates data from larval and adult morphology, advertisement calls and DNA sequences. Allobates velocicantus sp. nov. is distinguished from other Allobates mainly by the absence of hourglass-shaped dark marks on the dorsum and dark transverse bars on the thigh; a throat that is white centrally and yellow marginally; basal webbing on toes II and III; finger I longer than finger II; and an advertisement call composed of 66–138 pulsed notes with a note duration of 5–13 ms, inter-note intervals of 10–18 ms and a dominant frequency of 5,512–6,158 Hz. Tadpoles of the new species have 3–4 short, rounded papillae on the anterior labium, 16–23 papillae on the posterior labium, and a labial keratodont row formula 2(2)/3(1). This is the fifth species of Allobates described from the state of Acre, southwestern Brazilian Amazonia.

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