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ZooKeys 371: 35-56 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.371.6580

A new species of the Rhinella margaritifera species group (Anura, Bufonidae) from the montane forest of the Selva Central, Peru Jiří Moravec 1,†, Edgar Lehr 2,‡, Juan Carlos Cusi 3,§, Jesús H. Córdova 3,|, Václav Gvoždík 1,¶ † http://zoobank.org/860D3E6B-8AC6-48A5-A94E-47F2F0CFFB72 ‡ http://zoobank.org/1BA88866-282D-4349-8CEA-7B6731781915 1 Department of Zoology, National Museum, 19300 Praha 9, Czech Republic

§ http://zoobank.org/6BA95434-F8A0-410D-9F2A-DC35BEF01F2B

2 Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA

| http://zoobank.org/097B7A2C-77FB-4BD2-8B14-819F2931F55E

3 Departamento de Herpetología, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Av. Arenales 1256, Lince, Lima 14, Perú



¶ http://zoobank.org/BF30E84D-46C5-45EE-9140-E7E2154D9A66

Corresponding author: Jiří Moravec ([email protected]) Academic editor: F. Andreone Received 7 November 2013 | Accepted 2 January 2013 | Published 17 January 2014 (C) 2014 Jiří Moravec. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For reference, use of the paginated PDF or printed version of this article is recommended.

Abstract

We describe a new species of the bufonid toad genus Rhinella from transition montane forest of the buffer zones of the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park and the Pui Pui Protecte Forest (eastern slopes of Andes, Selva Central, Peru). The new species belongs to the Rhinella margaritifera species group (confirmed by mtDNA data) and differs from all members by the absence of tympanic membrane and tympanic annulus. It is characterized by medium size (SVL 57.5–65.5 mm, n = 5), moderately developed cranial crests, absen of neural crest of vertebrae, absence of bone protrusion at angle of jaw, presence of lateral rows of enlarged tubercles, and absence of subgular vocal sac and vocal slits in males. Powered by addition, based on the molecular phylogenetic analyses of selected Rhinella species we propose the monophylum containing R. chavin, R. festae, R. macrorhina, R. manu, R. nesiote

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