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| Anomaloglossus saramaka & A. vacheri Fouquet, Jairam, Ouboter & Kok, 2020 |
Abstract
Anomaloglossus is a species-rich genus of frogs endemic to the Guiana Shield that still harbours several unnamed species. According to a recent integrative taxonomic survey, the A. stepheni species group includes five valid nominal species and at least four putatively unnamed species, two in Brazil and two in Suriname. In this paper, we describe the two species from Suriname based on adult and tadpole morphology as well as their calls and natural history. Both have exotrophic tadpoles transported by the male to small water bodies. These two new species differ from each other and from other congeners in body size, colouration pattern, call characteristics and breeding sites. Both have narrow distributions and should be considered Endangered according to IUCN criteria.
Keywords: Amazonia, Conservation, Endemism, Guiana Shield, Taxonomy
Anomaloglossus is a species-rich genus of frogs endemic to the Guiana Shield that still harbours several unnamed species. According to a recent integrative taxonomic survey, the A. stepheni species group includes five valid nominal species and at least four putatively unnamed species, two in Brazil and two in Suriname. In this paper, we describe the two species from Suriname based on adult and tadpole morphology as well as their calls and natural history. Both have exotrophic tadpoles transported by the male to small water bodies. These two new species differ from each other and from other congeners in body size, colouration pattern, call characteristics and breeding sites. Both have narrow distributions and should be considered Endangered according to IUCN criteria.
Keywords: Amazonia, Conservation, Endemism, Guiana Shield, Taxonomy
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| Phylogenetic tree adapted from Fouquet et al. (2019) and Vacher et al. (2017) and maps of the distribution of the species of Anomaloglossus of the stepheni group. The phylogenetic positions of A. stepheni and A. apiau remain ambiguous and corresponding branches are depicted with dashed lines. The ranges of the two species with endotrophic tadpoles (A. baeobatrachus and A. stepheni) are illustrated with a solid yellow and an orange polygon, respectively. The known populations of the species with exotrophic tadpoles are depicted by coloured dots except the range of the putatively introgressed populations related to A. baeobatrachus that is illustrated with a black-contoured triangle (Fouquet et al. 2019b). |
Anomaloglossus saramaka sp. nov.
Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition and refers to the Saramaka people who live nearby the
type locality and are one of the Maroon communities living in Suriname.
Anomaloglossus vacheri sp. nov.
Etymology. This species is dedicated to Jean-Pierre Vacher, in honour of his strong contribution to the understanding of the diversity and the evolution of the genus Anomaloglossus.
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| Two males (top) and one female (bottom) of the two species described herein, Anomaloglossus saramaka sp. nov. and A. vacheri sp. nov., along with one male of the three additional species of the A. stepheni group occurring in Suriname. |
Antoine Fouquet, Rawien Jairam, Paul Ouboter and Philippe J. R. Kok. 2020. Two New Species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) of the stepheni group from Suriname. Zootaxa. 4820(1); 147–164. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.1.7
