ZooKeys
2015
516
71–84
10.3897/zookeys.516.9776
ISSN 1313-2970 (online), ISSN 1313-2989 (print)
Frog, La Convención, leaf litter amphibian, Noblella madreselva, new species
A new species of Noblella is described from the humid montane forest of the Región Cusco in Peru. Specimens were collected at 2330–2370 m elevation in Madre Selva, near Santa Ana, in the province of La Convención. The new species is readily distinguished from all other species of Noblella by having a broad, irregularly shaped, white mark on black background on chest and belly. The new species further differs from known Peruvian species of Noblella by the combination of the following characters: tympanic membrane absent, small tubercles on the upper eyelid and on dorsum, tarsal tubercles or folds absent, tips of digits not expanded, no circumferential grooves on digits, dark brown facial mask and lateral band extending from the tip of the snout to the inguinal region. The new species has a snout-to-vent length of 15.6 mm in one adult male and 17.6 mm in one adult female. Like other recently described species in the genus, this new Noblella inhabits high-elevation forests in the Andes and likely has a restricted geographic distribution.
© Alessandro Catenazzi et al
Catenazzi, Alessandro; Uscapi, Vanessa; von May Rudolf
Pensoft Publishers
Sofía, Bulgaria
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