A New Species ofPristimantis(Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Cloud Forest of Sangay National Park, Ecuador

Georissus (Neogeorissus) smetanai sp. nov. is described from Mt. Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Malaysia. Long series of thisspecies has been sifted from cloud forest leaf litter in contrast to most species of the genus, which are most frequently collectedin riparian zones. The species is compared with G. lateralis Delève, 1967 and G. inflatus Delève, 1972, which were collected under similar circumstances and the leaf-litter habits of the three species are briefly discussed.Keywords. Georissus, new species, leaf litter, terrestrial habitats, aptery, Malaysia, Borneo, Sri Lanka, Republic of the Congo

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A new, high-elevation glassfrog (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Manu National Park, southern Peru

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3388.1.5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3388 (1) ◽

pp. 56 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI ◽

RUDOLF VON MAY ◽

EDGAR LEHR ◽

GIUSSEPE GAGLIARDI-URRUTIA ◽

JUAN M. GUAYASAMIN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

High Elevation ◽

Advertisement Call ◽

Similar Species ◽

Southern Peru ◽

Northern Peru ◽

Manu National Park ◽

A New Species

We describe a new species of glassfrog from the cloud forest of Manu National Park, southern Peru, at elevations of 2750–2800m. The new species is similar in morphology to Centrolene lemniscatum, which occurs in northern Peru at elevations of2000–2280 m. Both species have white labial stripes, humeral spines, and lack vomerine teeth. The new species differs from C.lemniscatum by its larger size, labial stripe extending into a distinct lateral stripe instead of a discontinuous lateral stripe, snoutprofile inclined anteroventrally instead of bluntly rounded, greater depression in the internarial area, and by having stronglyprotruding nostrils. Males of the new species emit long calls with 8–14 peaked notes, instead of a short tonal note in C. lemnis-catum. Another morphologically similar species, C. buckleyi, has a short advertisement call composed of 1–5 notes, and isgenetically distinct from the new species. This new Centrolene extends the known distribution of Centrolene to the south by 600 km, and is the southernmost species of this genus.

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Telipogon mayoi (Orchidaceae), a new species from the Western Andes of Colombia

Lankesteriana ◽

10.15517/lank.v19i3.39969 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Guillermo A. Reina-Rodríguez ◽

Francisco López-Machado ◽

Carlos Martel

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Detailed Analysis ◽

National Park ◽

Floral Morphology ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

Distribution Map ◽

Colombian Andes ◽

Protective Forest ◽

A New Species

Telipogon mayoi, from the western Colombian Andes, is proposed as a new species. The species was found in “La Elvira” National Protective Forest in the Yumbo Municipality, one of the oldest protected areas in Colombia, close to the Farallones de Cali National Park, both localities in the Dapa Mountains. Specimens of Telipogon mayoi were previously misidentified as Telipogon lankesteri Ames and T. williamsii P.Ortiz, but detailed analysis of the floral morphology revealed that it is different. Telipogon mayoi is most similar to T. lankesteri but it is characterized by the crenulated margins of the leaves (vs. entire margins), the ovate oblong lip (vs. oblong lanceolate) and furcate setae on the column (vs. simple setae). We provide a description, illustrations, a plate, in situ photographs, a distribution map, and ecological notes. Key Words: Andes, cloud forest, Colombia, miniature Telipogon, Oncidiinae

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A new species of long-tailed shrew of the genus Sorex (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from Sierra de Omoa, Honduras

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4809.1.3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4809 (1) ◽

pp. 56-70

Author(s):

ALEXANDRA J. ANDINO-MADRID ◽

JULIO E. MÉRIDA COLINDRES ◽

SERGIO G. PÉREZ-CONSUEGRA ◽

JOHN O. MATSON

Keyword(s):

Principal Component Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

Principal Component ◽

Species Group ◽

Mexican State ◽

Isthmus Of Tehuantepec ◽

Celaque National Park ◽

A New Species

The only known species of the genus Sorex in Honduras is Sorex mccarthyi Matson & Ordóñez-Garza, which is endemic to Celaque National Park. This species shows the presence of a postmandibular foramen and canal, a characteristic that is useful to distinguish between species south of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and unique to the Sorex salvini species group. Recently, two specimens of Sorex were collected in 2018 at Cusuco National Park, northwestern Honduras. These specimens lack the distinctive characteristics possessed by the S. salvini species group and belong to the Sorex veraepacis species group. Previously, the S. veraepacis species group was only known from the highlands of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Principal component analysis shows that specimens from Sierra de Omoa are different in size and shape with respect to other known species (i.e., S. veraepacis Alston, S. ibarrai Matson & McCarthy and S. madrensis Matson & Ordóñez-Garza). We describe these two specimens, currently known only from an isolated cloud forest in the Sierra de Omoa, Honduras, as a new species.

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A new species of Derobrachus Audinet-Serville, 1832 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae) from a cloud forest in Honduras

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4422.3.5 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4422 (3) ◽

pp. 395

Author(s):

ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA ◽

NOËL MAL ◽

MARTIJN VAN ROIE ◽

MERLIJN JOCQUÉ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

Common Species ◽

Identification Key ◽

Biodiversity Monitoring ◽

Longhorned Beetles ◽

A New Species

A yearly biodiversity monitoring of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae) in a Honduran cloud forest revealed a new species of prionine. Derobrachus cusucoensis sp. nov. is a locally relatively common species described from Cusuco National Park in Honduras, becoming the ninth species of this genus recorded for the country. Similar both in morphology and a montane habitat to D. dohrni, there is a possibility that this new species represents a disconnected population from the latter that evolved separately. An adapted insert for an existing identification key to all Derobrachus species is included.

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A new species of frog (genus Eleutherodactylus) from a cloud forest in Western Colombia

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1171.1.4 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1171 (1) ◽

pp. 39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

JUAN C. GARCÍA ◽

JOHN D. LYNCH

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

A New Species

A new species of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Leptodactylidae) is described from a cloud forest in western Departamento del Cauca, in Munchique National Park, sector La Romelia, between 2550 and 2750 m., and E. hectus is verified for the region.

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Impatiens serusiauxii (Balsaminaceae), a new species from Marojejy National Park, Madagascar

Plant and Fungal Systematics ◽

10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 134-138

Author(s):

Eberhard Fischer ◽

Elisette Marie Rahelivololona ◽

Dorothee Killmann

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

Montane Cloud Forest ◽

A New Species

The new species Impatiens serusiauxii is described from Marojejy National Park in NE Madagascar. Impatiens serusiauxii differs from the morphologically similar I. manaharensis in the distinctly coriaceous linear-lanceolate leaves, the larger white flowers with dark red and yellow spots, the shape of the dorsal petal and the lateral united petals, and the shape of the lateral sepals and the lower sepal with spur oriented upwards. Impatiens serusiauxii is restricted to sclerophyllous montane cloud forest above 1100 m.

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A new species of Liolaemus (Reptilia: Iguanidae) from San Guillermo National Park, western Argentina

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1361.1.3 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1361 (1) ◽

pp. 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

JULIO C. MONGUILLOT ◽

MARIO R. CABRERA ◽

JUAN C. ACOSTA ◽

JOSE VILLAVICENCIO

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Small Body ◽

Species Group ◽

Posterior Surface ◽

Small Body Size ◽

Long Tail ◽

Sparse Vegetation ◽

Dorsal Pattern ◽

A New Species

A new species of Iguanidae Liolaemini lizard from the San Guillermo National Park in western Argentina, is described. The new species is a member of the Liolaemus darwinii complex within the monophyletic boulengeri species group. It is distinguished by its small body size, relatively long tail, low number of scales around midbody, dorsal scales moderately keeled, precloacal pores only in male, bulged patch of enlarged scales on the proximal posterior surface of the thigh in both sexes, dorsal pattern lacking of light vertebral or dorsolateral stripes, antehumeral fold without black pigment in female but greyish in male, a prescapular dark dot dorsal to antehumeral fold in both sexes, and postscapular spot absent. The new species is terrestrial, living in habitats with gravel and sandy soil in an Andean Monte landscape with sparse vegetation, above 2270 meters of altitude.

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Description of a new species of Auriculostoma (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) from Characidium heirmostigmata (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from Argentina, using morphological and molecular data

Journal of Helminthology ◽

10.1017/s0022149x21000109 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 95 ◽

Author(s):

M.M. Montes ◽

J. Barneche ◽

Y. Croci ◽

D. Balcazar ◽

A. Almirón ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Rrna Gene ◽

28S Rrna ◽

The Family ◽

Parasitological Survey ◽

Morphological And Molecular Data ◽

A New Species

Abstract During a parasitological survey of fishes at Iguazu National Park, Argentina, specimens belonging to the allocreadiid genus Auriculostoma were collected from the intestine of Characidium heirmostigmata. The erection of the new species is based on a unique combination of morphological traits as well as on phylogenetic analysis. Auriculostoma guacurarii n. sp. resembles four congeneric species – Auriculostoma diagonale, Auriculostoma platense, Auriculostoma tica and Auriculostoma totonacapanensis – in having smooth and oblique testes, but can be distinguished by a combination of several morphological features, hosts association and geographic distribution. Morphologically, the new species can be distinguished from both A. diagonale and A. platense by the egg size (bigger in the first and smaller in the last); from A. tica by a shorter body length, the genital pore position and the extension of the caeca; and from A. totonacapanensis by the size of the oral and ventral sucker and the post-testicular space. Additionally, one specimen of Auriculostoma cf. stenopteri from the characid Charax stenopterus (Characiformes) from La Plata River, Argentina, was sampled and the partial 28S rRNA gene was sequenced. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that A. guacurarii n. sp. clustered with A. tica and these two as sister taxa to A. cf. stenopteri. The new species described herein is the tenth species in the genus and the first one parasitizing a member of the family Crenuchidae.

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A new species, Agapetus kaengkrungensis (Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae) from Kaeng Krung National Park, southern Thailand with the distribution map of the genus in Thailand

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4965.2.12 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4965 (2) ◽

pp. 396-400

Author(s):

SOLOMON BOGA VADON ◽

PATTIRA PONGTIPATI ◽

PONGSAK LAUDEE

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Distribution Map ◽

Southern Thailand ◽

A New Species

The male of a new species of caddisfly, Agapetus kaengkrungensis n. sp. (Glossosomatidae) is described and illustrated from Kaeng Krung National Park, Surat Thani Province, southern Thailand. Agapetus kaengkrungensis n. sp. is distinguished from other species by the characters of segment IX and inferior appendages. The distributions of the Agapetus spp. of Thailand are mapped and discussed.

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