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

Garcia, J. C.; Lynch, John D.

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1171.1.4

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“…22201/ib.20078706e.202022201/ib.20078706e. .91.3013 Duellman, 1980, P. cruentus (Peters, 1873), P. educatoris (Ryan, Lips y Giermakowski, 2010), P. erythropleura (Boulenger, 1896), P. jubatus (García y Lynch, 2006), P. kelephus (1998), P. laticlavius (Lynch y Burrowes, 1990), P. latidiscus (Boulenger, 1898), P. museosus (Ibáñez, Jaramillo y Arosemena, 1994), P. paisa (Lynch y Ardila-Robayo, 1999), P. ridens (Cope, 1866), P. rosadoi (Flores, 1988), P. sanguineus (Lynch, 1998), P. variabilis (Lynch, 1968) , P. viejas (Lynch y Rueda-Almonacid, 1999).…”

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Relaciones filogenéticas del subgénero Hypodictyon (Anura: Strabomantidae: Pristimantis) con la descripción de tres especies nuevas de la región del Chocó

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Relaciones filogenéticas del subgénero Hypodictyon (Anura: Strabomantidae: Pristimantis) con la descripción de tres especies nuevas de la región del Chocó

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“…This study focused on three species of Pristimantis with distributions in the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia. Pristimantis jubatus [28] is found at 2,450–2,750 meters above sea level (masl) in Munchique National Park, with a total range less than 5,000 km 2 in the department of Cauca. This species is considered to be locally abundant, inhabits forests with high (>90%) average humidity and dense vegetation cover (>80%) and appears to be intolerant of habitat modifications [28] , [29] .…”

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“…Pristimantis jubatus [28] is found at 2,450–2,750 meters above sea level (masl) in Munchique National Park, with a total range less than 5,000 km 2 in the department of Cauca. This species is considered to be locally abundant, inhabits forests with high (>90%) average humidity and dense vegetation cover (>80%) and appears to be intolerant of habitat modifications [28] , [29] . In contrast, Pristimantis palmeri [30] and P. brevifrons [31] are sympatric in the Cordillera Occidental, ranging from the departments of Cauca to Risaralda, with elevational ranges of 900 to 2,400 masl and 1,140–3,200 masl, respectively.…”

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Comparative Phylogeography of Direct-Developing Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae: Pristimantis) in the Southern Andes of Colombia

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The Andes of South America hosts perhaps the highest amphibian species diversity in the world, and a sizable component of that diversity is comprised of direct-developing frogs of the genus Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae). In order to better understand the initial stages of species formation in these frogs, this study quantified local-scale spatial genetic structuring in three species of Pristimantis. DNA sequences of two mitochondrial gene fragments (16S and COI) were obtained from P. brevifrons, P. palmeri and P. jubatus at different locations in the Cordillera Occidental. We found high levels of genetic diversity in the three species, with highly structured populations (as measured by F ST) in P. brevifrons and P. palmeri while P. jubatus showed panmixia. Large effective population sizes, inferred from the high levels of genetic diversity, were found in the three species and two highly divergent lineages were detected within P. jubatus and P. palmeri. Estimated divergence times among populations within P. brevifrons and P. palmeri coincide with the Pleistocene, perhaps due to similar responses to climatic cycling or recent geological history. Such insights have important implications for linking alpha and beta diversity, suggesting regional scale patterns may be associated with local scale processes in promoting differentiation among populations in the Andes.

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“…The species belonging to this group inhabit rainforest, montane forests, and paramos of Colombia and Ecuador ( Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008 ; Padial, Grant & Frost, 2014 ; Rojas-Runjaic, Delgado & Guayasamin, 2014 ; Rojas-Runjaic & Guayasamin, 2015 ; González-Durán et al, 2017 ; Guayasamin, Arteaga & Hutter, 2018 ). The group, as currently defined, is composed of 24 species: Pristimantis festae ( Peracca, 1904 ); Pristimantis myersi ( Goin & Cochran, 1963 ); Pristimantis celator ( Lynch, 1976a ); Pristimantis leoni ( Lynch, 1976b ); Pristimantis gladiator ( Lynch, 1976b ); Pristimantis pyrrhomerus ( Lynch, 1976b ); Pristimantis ocreatus ( Lynch, 1981a ); Pristimantis repens ( Lynch, 1984 ); Pristimantis hectus ( Lynch & Burrowes, 1990 ); Pristimantis verecundus ( Lynch & Burrowes, 1990 ); Pristimantis scopaeus ( Lynch, Carranza & Robayo, 1996 ); Pristimantis floridus ( Lynch & Duellman, 1997 ); Pristimantis xeniolum ( Lynch, 2001 ); Pristimantis jubatus ( García & Lynch, 2006 ); Pristimantis bicantus Guayasamin & Funk, 2009 ; Pristimantis onorei Rödder & Schmitz, 2009 ; Pristimantis lucidosignatus Rödder & Schmitz, 2009 ; Pristimantis sirnigeli Yánez-Muñoz et al., 2010 ; Pristimantis munozi Rojas-Runjaic, Delgado & Guayasamin, 2014 ; Pristimantis mutabilis Guayasamin et al., 2015 ; Pristimantis sambalan Brito, Batallas & Yánez-Muñoz, 2017 ; Pristimantis albujai Brito, Batallas & Yánez-Muñoz, 2017 ; Pristimantis gralarias Guayasamin, Arteaga & Hutter, 2018 ; and Pristimantis nelsongalloi Valencia et al., 2019 . Of these, 20 are found in Ecuador, between 900 and 4,150 masl ( Frost, 2023 ).…”

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Unveiling the evolutionary relationships and the high cryptic diversity in Andean rainfrogs (Craugastoridae: Pristimantis myersi group)

Franco-Mena

Guayasamín

Andrade-Brito

et al. 2023

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Background Pristimantis is the most diverse genus of terrestrial frogs. Historically, it has been divided into several phenetic groups in order to facilitate species identification. However, in light of phylogenetic analysis, many of these groups have been shown to be non-monophyletic, denoting a high degree of morphological convergence and limited number of diagnostic traits. In this study, we focus on the Pristimantis myersi group, an assemblage of small rainfrogs distributed throughout the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, whose external morphology is highly conserved, and its species diversity and evolutionary relationships largely unknown. Methods We inferred a new phylogenetic hypothesis for the frog genus Pristimantis, including all available sequences of the mtDNA 16S rRNA, as well as new DNA sequences from 175 specimens. Our sampling included 19 of the 24 species currently recognized as part of the Pristimantis myersi group. Results Our new evolutionary hypothesis recovered the P. myersi group as non-monophyletic and composed of 16 species. Therefore, we exclude P. albujai, P. bicantus, P. sambalan, and P. nelsongalloi in order to preserve the monophyly of the group. We discovered at least eight candidate species, most of them hidden under the names of P. leoni, P. hectus, P. festae, P. gladiator, and P. ocreatus. Discussion Our results reveal the occurrence of a high level of cryptic diversity to the species level within the P. myersi group and highlight the need to redefine some of its species and reassess their conservation status. We suggest that the conservation status of six species within the group need to be re-evaluated because they exhibit smaller distributions than previously thought; these species are: P. festae, P. gladiator, P. hectus, P. leoni, P. ocreatus, and P. pyrrhomerus. Finally, given that the Pristimantis myersi group, as defined in this work, is monophyletic and morphologically diagnosable, and that Trachyphrynus is an available name for the clade containing P. myersi, we implement Trachyphrynus as a formal subgenus name for the Pristimantis myersi group.

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

Abstract: 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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Relaciones filogenéticas del subgénero Hypodictyon (Anura: Strabomantidae: Pristimantis) con la descripción de tres especies nuevas de la región del Chocó

Relaciones filogenéticas del subgénero Hypodictyon (Anura: Strabomantidae: Pristimantis) con la descripción de tres especies nuevas de la región del Chocó

Comparative Phylogeography of Direct-Developing Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae: Pristimantis) in the Southern Andes of Colombia

Unveiling the evolutionary relationships and the high cryptic diversity in Andean rainfrogs (Craugastoridae: Pristimantis myersi group)

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