Una nueva especie de Tepuihyla (Anura: HyUdae) del noroeste de Venezuela, con comentarios sobre su biogeografía

 

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Autorzy: Mijares-Urrutia, Abraham, Manzanilla-Puppo, Jesús, La Marca, Enrique
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data wydania:1999
Opis:Anew species of treefrog, Tepuihyla celsae (Hylidae), is described based on 11 specimens from cloudforests (1250 m) of the Sierra de San Luis, state of Falcón, northwestem Venezuela. The new species is d1stinguished from its congeners by dorsal pattero dark-brown with sorne few, small and scattered white spots, upper Iip immaculate white, dorsum strongly tuberculated in both sexes, dorsal spicules absent, eye-naris distance longer than horizontal length of eye, fingers lacking webbing, axillary membrane absent. This new Tepuihyla extend the known range of the genus more !han 500 km northwesterward, and is the frrst report of the genus outside the Guyanan masif, adding new evidence to support a c10se biogeographic affinity among the Sierra de San Luís and the Cordillera de la Costa with .the highlands of the Guyanan región.
Kraj:Portal de Revistas UCR
Instytucja:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Język:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/19316
Dostęp online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/19316
Słowo kluczowe:amphibia
anura
hylidae
biogeography
falcón
tepuihyla celsae sp. nov.
venezuela
taxonomy