A tiny new species of Platypelis from the Marojejy National Park in northeastern Madagascar (Amphibia: Microhylidae)
- We describe a tiny new frog species of the genus Platypelis (Anura: Microhylidae: Cophylinae) from Marojejy National Park, northeastern Madagascar. Platypelis ravus sp. nov. differs from all other known Platypelis and Cophyla species by its small size (17-19 mm snout-vent length) and a combination of other morphological and bioacoustic characters. The new species seems to be most closely related to P. milloti with which it shares the principal colour pattern, but exhibits a yellow rather than red posterior venter. Uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence in a 16S rRNA gene fragment to all other known species of the genus (except P. cowanii for which no genetic data is available) is greater than 6%. We suggest the inclusion of the new species in the IUCN threat category “Data Deficient”.
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| Author: | Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-326610 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.9 |
| Parent Title (English): | European journal of taxonomy : 9 |
| Series (Serial Number): | European journal of taxonomy : EJT (9) |
| Publisher: | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
| Place of publication: | Paris |
| Document Type: | Part of Periodical |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2012/03/14 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2012/03/14 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/12/13 |
| Tag: | Cophylinae; Madagascar; Marojejy National Park; Microhylidae; Platypelis ravus sp. nov |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 9 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 362666172 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
