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A New Species Of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) From The Amazonian Lowlands Of Northern Peru, Edgar Lehr, Luis A.G. Gagliardi Urrutia, Jiri Moravec
A New Species Of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) From The Amazonian Lowlands Of Northern Peru, Edgar Lehr, Luis A.G. Gagliardi Urrutia, Jiri Moravec
Edgar Lehr
We describe a new species of Pristimantis from the vicinity of Puerto Almendras, ca. 17 km straight southwest of Iquitos, Provincia Maynas, Region Loreto, Peru. With seven other species (P. carvalhoi, P. croceoinguinis, P. divnae, P. lirellus, P. minutulus, P. toftae, P. variabilis) from the Amazonian lowlands and lower eastern Andes in Peru, the new species shares a yellow groin and broadly expanded discs on fingers and toes. However, the new species can be distinguished by the follow¬ing combination of characters: snout–vent length 14.8 mm in the single male, 20.0–22.0 mm in females, strongly tubercular dorsal skin, absence of dorsolateral …