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Rojas, Rommel R.; Fouquet, Antoine; Ron, Santiago R.; Hernandez-ruz, Emil Jose; Melo-sampaio, Paulo R.; Chaparro, Juan C.; Vogt, Richard C.; De Carvalho, Vinicius Tadeu; Pinheiro, Leandra Cardoso; Avila, Robson W.; Farias, Izeni Pires; Gordo, Marcelo; Hrbek, Tomas. |
Amphibians are probably the most vulnerable group to climate change and climate-change associate diseases. This ongoing biodiversity crisis makes it thus imperative to improve the taxonomy of anurans in biodiverse but understudied areas such as Amazonia. In this study, we applied robust integrative taxonomic methods combining genetic (mitochondrial 16S, 12S and COI genes), morphological and environmental data to delimit species of the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) sampled from throughout their pan-Amazonian distribution. Our study confirms the hypothesis that the species diversity of the genus is grossly underestimated. Our analyses suggest the existence of eighteen linages of which seven are nominal species, three Deep Conspecific Lineages, one... |
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Palavras-chave: Integrative taxonomy; Cryptic diversity; Species delimitation; Amphibians; Amazon. |
Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00660/77219/78676.pdf |
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Caminer, Marcel A.; Mila, Borja; Jansen, Martin; Fouquet, Antoine; Venegas, Pablo J.; Chavez, German; Lougheed, Stephen C.; Ron, Santiago R.. |
Genetic data in studies of systematics of Amazonian amphibians frequently reveal that purportedly widespread single species in reality comprise species complexes. This means that real species richness may be significantly higher than current estimates. Here we combine genetic, morphological, and bioacoustic data to assess the phylogenetic relationships and species boundaries of two Amazonian species of the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species group: D. leucophyllatus and D. triangulum. Our results uncovered the existence of five confirmed and four unconfirmed candidate species. Among the confirmed candidate species, three have available names: Dendropsophus leucophyllatus, Dendropsophus triangulum, and Dendropsophus reticulatus, this last being removed... |
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Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00663/77536/79356.pdf |
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