New Species of Centrolenid Frogs From Northern Peru (Classic Reprint)

New Species of Centrolenid Frogs From Northern Peru (Classic Reprint)
Author: William E. Duellman
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780666386434
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Excerpt from New Species of Centrolenid Frogs From Northern Peru In the Departamento San Martin, a complex series of ridges reaching elevations of more than 1000 m extend eastward and southward from the Cordillera Central of the Andes. These steep, rocky ridges support lower montane rainforest and cloud forest, whereas the intervening valleys, most of which are extensively cultivated, contain remnants of dry tropical forest. Many small streams cascade down these slopes; major drainage systems flow south Rio Mayo) or east (e. G., Rio Cainarache) into the Rio Huallaga, which separates the Cordillera Central from the Cordillera Oriental. In northern Peru, the Cordillera Oriental terminates in a series of ridges with elevations of 1000 - 1200 m. The Rio Huallaga cuts a canyon through these front ranges between Shapaja and Chazuta, to the south of which is the northern end of the Cordillera Azul (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Review of Northern Peruvian Glassfrogs (Centrolenidae), with the Description of Four New Remarkable Species

A Review of Northern Peruvian Glassfrogs (Centrolenidae), with the Description of Four New Remarkable Species
Author: Evan Twomey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN: 9781775574729
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Peru is well known for amphibian diversity and endemism, yet there have been relatively few field studies of glassfrog (Centrolenidae) diversity in this country. Research in Colombia and Ecuador indicates that centrolenid diversity is higher in the northern Andes. However, part of this trend appears to be due to sampling effort. We conducted fieldwork throughout northern Peru, and based on phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences, combined with bioacoustic and morphological analyses of new and available material we now recognize 33 species from the country (versus 30 species prior to this work). Field surveys led to the discovery of four remarkable species: Centrolene charapita new species is a large, ornamented glassfrog that appears to be sister to Ce. geckoideum; Chimerella corleone new species represents the second-known member of the genus Chimerella; Cochranella guayasamini new species is the second-known member of the genus with humeral spines; and Hyalinobatrachium anachoretus new species occurs in the cloud forest of the east-Andean versant in Peru. In addition to the new species described here, we provide new country records, new localities including range extensions of up to 875 km, information on diagnostic characters and phylogenetic relationships, call and larval descriptions, and observations on natural history for several Peruvian centrolenids. Our results also revealed several taxonomic problems concerning species of the genus Rulyrana, and we conclude that R. croceopodes and R. tangarana are junior synonyms of R. saxiscandens. By implication of our phylogenetic analyses, we recognize the following new combinations: Espadarana audax new combination, Espadarana durrelorum new combination, and Espadarana fernandoinew combination.

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
Author: Lawrence S. Hamilton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461225000
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Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope montane and lowland forests. TMCFs are not hospitable environments for human occupation, and their remoteness (except in places near Andean high mountain settlements and in the Ethiopian Highlands) and difficult terrain have given them de facto protection. The ad jacent upper montane rain forests have indeed been under assault for timber, fuelwood, and for conversion to grazing and agriculture for many decades, even centuries in the Andes, but true cloud forest has only come under ex ploitation as these lower elevational resources have disappeared. They have also been "nibbled" at from above where there have been alpine grasslands under grazing pressure. Increasingly now, however, these cloud forest eco systems are being fragmented, reduced, and disturbed at an alarming rate. It is now becoming recognized that steps must be taken rapidly to increase our understanding of TMCF and to achieve their conservation, because: their water-capture function is extremely important to society; • their species endemism is high; they serve as refugia for endangered species being marginalized in these environments by increasingly transformed lower elevation ecosystems; they are relatively little studied; yet, their value to science is extremely high; they have low resilience to disturbance; vii viii Preface and many other reasons, which will be discussed subsequently in this publi cation.

Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles

Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles
Author: Alessandro Catenazzi
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3036506349
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This book includes all 14 articles contributed to the Special Issue "Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles” in the journal Diversity, originally published in 2019 and 2020.