A NEW SPECIES OF MINIATURIZED TOADLET, GENUS BRACHYCEPHALUS (ANURA: BRACHYCEPHALIDAE), FROM THE ATLANTIC FOREST OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL

Autor(es)

Clemente-Carvalho, Rute B. G. ^[1] ; Giaretta, Ariovaldo A. ^[2] ; Condez, Thais H. ^{[3, 4]} ; Haddad, Celio F. B. ^[4] ; dos Reis, Sergio F. ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Dept Biol Anim, Inst Biol, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Fed Uberlandia, Fac Integradas Pontal, BR-38304402 Ituiutaba, MG - Brazil

^[3] Univ Estadual Campinas, Programa Posgrad Zool, Inst Biociencias, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP - Brazil

^[4] Univ Estadual Campinas, Dept Zool, Inst Biociencias, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Herpetologica; v. 68, n. 3, p. 365-374, SEP 2012.
• Citações Web of Science: 11

Resumo

A new species of miniaturized froglet (genus Brachycephalus) is described from Morro Prumirim in the municipality of Ubatuba, Sao Paulo, southeastern Brazil. Specimens were collected from the leaf litter at approximately 800 m above sea level. The new species is distinguished from all its congeners by the combination of the following characters: snout-vent length 8.7-13.4 mm; skin on head and dorsum with dermal ossification; general color orange, with a narrow brownish vertebral stripe and belly without spots; and skull, spinal processes of sacral and pre-sacral vertebrae, and process of the fourth vertebra hyperossified. Canonical variates analysis of linear body measurement demonstrates that the new species is easily discriminated from other Brachycephalus species with which it shares an intermediate condition of hyperossification. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 05/55449-6 - Taxonomia, sistemática e evolução do gênero Brachycephalus (Amphibia: Brachycephalidae): perspectivas morfológicas e moleculares
• Beneficiário: Sérgio Furtado dos Reis
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular
• Processo FAPESP: 11/10230-8 - Variação morfológica e molecular em populações de Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae)
• Beneficiário: Rute Beatriz Garcia Clemente Carvalho
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 08/50928-1 - Especiação de anfíbios anuros em ambientes de altitude
• Beneficiário: Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático