A new frog of the Eleutherodactylus abbotti species group (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from Hispaniola, with bioacoustic and taxonomic comments on other species
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A new species of frog, Eleutherodactylus geitonos sp. nov., is described from the southeastern slope of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. The new frog is closely related to E. haitianus and both species share a small size. They differ in some morphological proportions and other external features, coloration, advertisement calls and DNA sequences of the 16S rRNA gene. Morphological and bioacoustic comparisons with other species in the E. abbotti species group are also provided. Our preliminary genetic data suggest that the taxonomic status of E. neodreptus (a synonym of E. audanti) and E. melatrigonum need to be re-evaluated.
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Amphibia, taxonomy, West Indies, Dominican Republic, subgenus Eleutherodactylus, Terrarana
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Schwartz, A. 1965. A new species of Eleutherodactylus (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae) from the Sierra de Baoruco, Dominican Republic. Proceedings Biological Society of Washington, 78: 165–168.
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Grosjean, S., A. Ohler, Y. Chuaynkern, C. Cruaud and A. Hassanin. 2015. Improving biodiversity assessment of anuran amphibians using DNA barcoding of tadpoles. Case studies from Southeast Asia. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 338: 351–361.
Hager, J. and T. A. Zanoni. 1993. La vegetación natural de la República Dominicana: una nueva clasificación. Moscosoa, 7: 39-81.
Hedges, S. B. 1996. The Hispaniolan frog Eleutherodactylus neodreptus Schwartz (Anura: Leptodactylidae) is a synonym of E. audanti Cochran. Caribbean Journal of Science, 32: 248.
Hedges, S. B., W. E. Duellman, and M. P. Heinicke. 2008. New World direct developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa, 1737: 1–182.
Henderson, R. W., and R. Powell. 2009. Natural History of West Indian reptiles and amphibians. University Press of Florida, 493 pp.
Ivanova, N. V., J. De Waard and P. D. N. Hebert. 2006. An inexpensive, automation-friendly protocol for recovering high-quality DNA. Molecular Ecology Notes, 6: 998–1002.
Jobb, G., A. von Haeseler, and K. Strimmer. 2004. TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 4:18.
Köhler, J., M. Jansen, A. Rodríguez, P. J. R. Kok , L. F. Toledo , M. Emmrich, F. Glaw, C. F. B. Haddad, M. O. Rödel, and M. Vences. 2017. The use of bioacoustics in anuran taxonomy: theory, terminology, methods and recommendations for best practice. Zootaxa, 4251(1): 1–124. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4251.1.1.
Maya-Soriano, M. J., W. V. Holt and R. E. Lloyd. 2012. Biobanked amphibian samples confirmed to species level using 16S rRNA DNA barcodes. Biopreserv. biobank, 10: 22–28.
Ohler, A. and V. Nicolas. 2017. Which frog’s legs do froggies eat? The use of DNA barcoding for identification of deep frozen frog legs (Dicroglossidae, Amphibia) commercialized in France. European Journal of Taxonomy, 271: 1–19.
Padial, J. M., T. Grant and D. R. Frost. 2014. Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria. Zootaxa, 3825 (1): 001–132.
Rambaut A., A. J. Drummond, D. Xie, G. Baele and M. A. Suchard. 2018. Tracer v1.7, Available from http://beast.community/tracer.
Rockney, H. J., C. Ofori-Boateng, N. Porcino and A. D. Leaché. 2015. A comparison of DNA barcoding markers in West African frogs. African Journal of Herpetology, 64 (2): 135–147.
Ronquist, F. and J. P. Huelsenbeck. 2003. Mrbayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics, 19: 1572–1574.
Schwartz, A. 1965. A new species of Eleutherodactylus (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae) from the Sierra de Baoruco, Dominican Republic. Proceedings Biological Society of Washington, 78: 165–168.
Schwartz, A. 1966. The relationships of four small Hispaniolan Eleutherodactylus (Leptodactylidae). Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, 133: 369–399.
Schwartz, A. and R. W. Henderson. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
Tanabe, A. S. 2011. Kakusan4 and Aminosan: two programs for comparing nonpartitioned, proportional and separate models for combined molecular phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data. Molecular Ecology Notes, 11: 914–921.
Vences, M., M. Thomas, A. van der Meijden, Y. Chiari and D. R. Vieites. 2005. Comparative performance of the 16S rRNA gene in DNA barcoding of amphibians. Frontiers in Zoology, 2005, 2:5 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-2-5.
Vences, M., Y. Chiari, M. Teschke, R-D. Randrianiaina, L. Raharivololoniaina, P. Bora, D. R. Vieites and F. Glaw. 2008. Which frogs are out there? A preliminary evaluation of survey techniques and identification reliability of Malagasy amphibian. A Conservation Strategy for the Amphibians of Madagascar. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, XLV (2008): 233–252.
Watters, J. L., S. T. Cummings, R. L. Flanagan and C. D. Siler. 2016. Review of morphometric measurements used in anuran species descriptions and recommendations for a standardized approach. Zootaxa, 4072 (4): 477–495.
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Díaz, L. M., Incháustegui, S. J., Marte, C., Köhler, G., Cádiz, A., & Rodríguez, M. (2018). A new frog of the Eleutherodactylus abbotti species group (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from Hispaniola, with bioacoustic and taxonomic comments on other species. Novitates Caribaea, (12), 25–42. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i12.81
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