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Eleutherodactylus malkini (NCN) [Geographic Distribution]

January 2005
Herpetological Review 36(1):74

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Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)

ELEUTHERODACTYLUS MALKINI (NCN). ECUADOR: PROVINCIA DE SUCUMBIOS: 5 km from “El Triunfo” [a town on the km 68 on the Lago Agrio - Puerto El Carmen road] (00º03’S, 76º24’W, 270 m). 16 July 2000. D. F. Cisneros-Heredia, M. Brandt, A. León, T. Suhagara, and C. Ponce. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (DFCH-USFQ 373-75). Verified by L. Coloma. Eleutherodactylus malkini occurs along the low elevation rainforests in the upper Amazon Basin in extreme southeastern Colombia (Leticia), Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil (Lynch 1980. Am. Mus. Novit. 2696; Frost 2004. Amphibian Species of the World. Ver. 3.0 [22 August, 2004]. http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. American Museum of Natural History, New York). This record represents the northernmost locality in the distribution of the species, extending its range ca. 60 km N from the nearest locality at the Tiputini Biodioversity Station (Cisneros-Heredia 2003. Herpetofauna de la Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Amazonía Ecuatoriana. In De la Torre and Reck [eds], Ecología y Ambiente en el Ecuador, pp. 1–21. Mem. I Congreso de Ecología y Ambiente, Ecuador país megadiverso. CD. Universidad San Francisco de Quito).

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Herpetological Review 36(1): 74; 2005

ELEUTHERODACTYLUS MALKINI (NCN). ECUADOR:

PROVINCIA DE SUCUMBIOS: 5 km from “El Triunfo” [a town

on the km 68 on the Lago Agrio - Puerto El Carmen road] (00º03’S,

76º24’W, 270 m). 16 July 2000. D. F. Cisneros-Heredia, M. Brandt,

A. León, T. Suhagara, and C. Ponce. Universidad San Francisco

de Quito, Ecuador (DFCH-USFQ 373-75). Verified by L. Coloma.

Eleutherodactylus malkini occurs along the low elevation

rainforests in the upper Amazon Basin in extreme southeastern

Colombia (Leticia), Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil (Lynch 1980. Am.

Mus. Novit. 2696; Frost 2004. Amphibian Species of the World.

Ver. 3.0 [22 August, 2004]. http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/

amphibia/index.html. American Museum of Natural History, New

York). This record represents the northernmost locality in the

distribution of the species, extending its range ca. 60 km N from

the nearest locality at the Tiputini Biodioversity Station (Cisneros-

Heredia 2003. Herpetofauna de la Estación de Biodiversidad

Tiputini, Amazonía Ecuatoriana. In De la Torre and Reck [eds],

Ecología y Ambiente en el Ecuador, pp. 1–21. Mem. I Congreso

de Ecología y Ambiente, Ecuador país megadiverso. CD.

Universidad San Francisco de Quito).

Submitted by DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA, College of

Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco

de Quito, Ave. Interoceánica y calle Diego de Robles, Campus

Cumbayá, Edif. Maxwell. Casilla Postal 17-12-841, Quito,

Ecuador; e-mail: diegofrancisco_cisneros@yahoo.com.

A New Species of the Pristimantis conspicillatus Group from the Peruvian Amazon (Anura: Craugastoridae)

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ANN CARNEGIE MUS

We name and describe a new species of Anura, Pristimantis iiap, from the lowlands of the Peruvian Amazon, and allocate it to the Pristimantis conspicillatus group (sensu Padial et al. 2014). The new species was collected along the Sepahua River, a small tributary of the Urubamba River (Departamento Ucayali, Peru) running west from the slopes of the Fitzcarrald Arch. Individuals were found active at night in the understory of evergreen lowland forest with high density of bamboo (Gruadua spp.). The new species is characterized by having complete and conspicuous dorsolateral folds, a slightly granular belly, a first finger slightly shorter than second, with large discs on fingers and toes (especially Fingers III and IV), a bright orange groin, and by lacking well-defined orange spots on the back of thighs and shanks. The advertisement call is composed of a single pulsed note with an average of 15 pulses/note, a pulse rate of 205 pulses/s, an average call length of 75 ms, and average fundamental and dominant frequencies of 1857 Hz and 3690 Hz, respectively. Pristimantis iiap occurs in sympatry with three other species of the group, P. buccinator (Rodriguez, 1994), P. fenestratus (Steindachner, 1864), and P. skydmainos (Flores and Rodriguez, 1997). Although only known from two close localities, we expect P. iiap to occur in similar forests along the Fitzcarrald Arch and on the eastern slopes of Cordillera Vilcabamba and Cordillera del Sira.

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