Una nueva especie de sapo del género Osornophryne (Anura: Bufonidae) de las estribaciones amazónicas de los Andes de Ecuador

Authors

  • Jonh Jairo Mueses-Cisneros Colón Putumayo
  • Mario Humberto Yánez-Muñoz Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
  • Juan M. Guayasamin Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Museo de Zoología

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0031-10492010001700001

Keywords:

Ecuadorian Andes, Osornophryne, Bufonidae, Ecuador, New species

Abstract

A new distinctive species of Osornophryne is described from the Amazonian slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes at elevations between 2600 and 2800 m. The new species differ from most congeners (except O. guacamayo) by having elongated Toes IV and V, probably as an adaptation for arboreal habits. Osornophryne cofanorum sp. nov. differs from all known Osornophryne by having its skull, vertebrae, and urostlyle coosified with the overlying skin, conferring individuals a squeletic aspect. Males have a unique color pattern of yellow pustules on the tip of the snout, upper eyelid, limbs, and dorsolateral pustular clusters.

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Published

2010-01-01

Issue

Vol. 50 No. 17 (2010)

Section

naodefinida

License

Responsibility: The scientific content and the opinions expressed in the manuscript are the sole responsibility of the author(s).

Copyrights: Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY.

How to Cite

Mueses-Cisneros, J. J., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., & Guayasamin, J. M. (2010). Una nueva especie de sapo del género Osornophryne (Anura: Bufonidae) de las estribaciones amazónicas de los Andes de Ecuador . Papéis Avulsos De Zoologia, 50(17), 269-279. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0031-10492010001700001