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A New Species Of Telmatobius (Amphibia, Anura, Telmatobiidae) From The Pacific Slopes Of The Andes, Peru, Edgar Lehr, Alessandro Catenazzi, Victor Vargas
A New Species Of Telmatobius (Amphibia, Anura, Telmatobiidae) From The Pacific Slopes Of The Andes, Peru, Edgar Lehr, Alessandro Catenazzi, Victor Vargas
Edgar Lehr
We describe a new species of Telmatobius from the Pacific slopes of the Andes in central Peru. Specimens were collected at 3900 m elevation near Huaytará, Huancavelica, in the upper drainage of the Pisco river. The new species has a snout–vent length of 52.5 ± 1.1 mm (49.3–55.7 mm, n = 6) in adult females, and 48.5 mm in the single adult male. The new species has bright yellow and orange coloration ventrally and is readily distinguished from all other central Peruvian Andean species of Telmatobius but T. intermedius by having vomerine teeth but lacking premaxillary and maxillary teeth, and …