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| Scinax ushiniauae Gagliardi-Urrutia, Araujo-Vieira, Padial, Simões, Faivovich & Castroviejo-Fisher, 2024 |
Abstract
We describe a new species of the Scinax cruentomma species group, with a red streak in the iris and a weakly bilobate vocal sac. It is known from oligotrophic soils in the sedimentary basin of the Ucayali River near Jenaro Herrera (province of Requena, Peru) and Río Blanco (buffer zone of the Matses Indigenous territory and reserve). The new species can be distinguished from the other species of the S. cruentomma group by its small snout-vent length, body and iris color patterns, weakly bilobate vocal sac, myological characters, and the number of notes and pulses of the advertisement call. It is morphologically most similar to S. strussmannae, from which the advertisement call, nostril, canthus rostralis, and loreal region can distinguish it.
Amphibia, Amazon basin, bioacoustics, mating call, sp. nov., varillal, taxonomy, white-sand forests
Scinax ushiniauae
Giussepe GAGLIARDI-URRUTIA, Katyuscia ARAUJO-VIEIRA, José M. PADIAL, Pedro Ivo SIMÕES, Julián FAIVOVICH and Santiago CASTROVIEJO-FISHER. 2024. A New Species of the Scinax cruentomma group (Anura: Hylidae) from the Ucayali River Basin of Loreto, Peru. Zootaxa. 5406(3); 401-420. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5406.3.1 [2024-02-07]
Descubren nueva especie de rana en nuestra Amazonía
Importante hallazgo lo hicieron especialistas del IIAP, entidad del Ministerio del Ambiente en la cuenca del río Ucayali.
