Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new trans-Andean species of Elachistocleis Parker 1927 (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae)

Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela; Pedro L.V. Peloso; Verónica L. Urgiles; Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz; Yerka Sagredo; Nadia Páez; Santiago Ron

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.2

Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new trans-Andean species of Elachistocleis Parker 1927 (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae)

Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela
, Pedro L.V. Peloso
, Verónica L. Urgiles
, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz
, Yerka Sagredo
, Nadia Páez
, Santiago Ron^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Elachistocleis is a Neotropical genus of microhylid frogs with 18 species, most of which occur east of the Andes in South America. Here, we present a new phylogeny of Gastrophryninae and describe and name a new species of Elachistocleis from southern Ecuador - the first to be found west of the Andes and also the first from Ecuador. Our phylogeny is based on DNA sequences of the mitochondrial genes 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, COI, and the nuclear genes BDNF, cmyc2, H3A, 28S, SIA1, and Tyr. Elachistocleis araios sp. n., is the sister species of all other Elachistocleis. The finding of this taxon highlights the probability of the existence of more Elachistocleis species west of the Andes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	323-340
Number of pages	18
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	4779
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.2
State	Published - 20 May 2020

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Laboratory work was funded by grants from Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT, Arca de Noé Initiative; O. Torres-Carvajal and S. R. Ron Principal Investigators) and was carried out at the QCAZ molecular laboratory by Sebastian Escobar. This study was founded by Universidad del Azuay (Fondos UDA 2015 [39, 2016]). P.L.V. Peloso was supported by grants from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq: grant numbers 313680/2014-0, and 434362/20182). Yerka Sagredo was supported by ECOPAR. Special thanks to Professor John D. Lynch of the National University of Colombia for facilitating access to the material available in his collection, and Juan David Fernández for his help in obtaining species data. JCS thanks Manuel Sánchez for his help in the manuscript. Laboratory work was funded by grants from Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT, Arca de Noé Initiative; O. Torres-Carvajal and S. R. Ron Principal Investigators) and was carried out at the QCAZ molecular laboratory by Sebastian Escobar. This study was founded by Universidad del Azuay (Fon-dos UDA 2015 [39, 2016]). P.L.V. Peloso was supported by grants from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de De-senvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq: grant numbers 313680/2014-0, and 434362/20182). Yerka Sagredo was supported by ECOPAR. Special thanks to Professor John D. Lynch of the National University of Colombia for facilitating access to the material available in his collection, and Juan David Fernández for his help in obtaining species data. JCS thanks Manuel Sánchez for his help in the manuscript.

Funders	Funder number
Universidad del Azuay
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico	313680/2014-0, 434362/20182

Keywords

Ecuador
Elachistocleis araios sp. n.
Narrow-mouthed frog
Pacific slopes
Phylogenetics
Systematics

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