A new species of Pristimantis (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from a montane forest of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru

• Published in: ZooKeys 2024-11, Vol.1219 (4), p.143-163
• Main Authors: Lehr, Edgar, Moravec, Jiří, Wang, Yingtong, Uvizl, Marek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Analysis; Discovery and exploration; Frogs; Identification and classification; Morphology (Animals)
• ISSN: 1313-2989; 1313-2970
• DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.129773

Herpetological inventories conducted in the Pui Pui Protected Forest in the central Peruvian Andes between 2012 and 2014 revealed unusually high local anuran richness and endemism. Herein, we describe a new species of discovered in the buffer zone of the protected area between 1550 and 1730 m a.s.l. The description is based on one subadult male (snout-vent length 14.4 mm), one adult female (snout-vent length 26.4 mm), and six juvenile specimens collected in the montane forest between 1550 and 1730 m a.s.l. DNA barcoding placed as the sister taxon to and in the clade also containing , , , and one still unnamed species. differs from all these closely related species by the combination of the following characters: tuberculate dorsum, presence of the tympanum, presence of dentigerous processes on the vomer, absence of vocal slits, a red median horizontal streak across the iris, a narrow black median vertical streak on the lower half of the eye, cream to dark brown dorsal ground coloration, and cream to gray ventral ground coloration.