Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Pseudopaludicola parnaiba (Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leiuperinae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Brazilian Cerrado

  • Felipe Silva de Andrade Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo
  • Isabelle Aquemi Haga Laboratório de Taxonomia e Sistemática de Anuros Neotropicais (LTSAN), Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal (ICENP), Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais
  • Mariana Lúcio Lyra Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo
  • Thiago Ribeiro de Carvalho Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo
  • Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo
  • Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta Laboratório de Taxonomia e Sistemática de Anuros Neotropicais (LTSAN), Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal (ICENP), Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais
  • Luís Felipe Toledo Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.679
Keywords: integrative taxonomy, Pseudopaludicola canga, mitochondrial DNA, morphologically cryptic species

Abstract

The Neotropical frog genus Pseudopaludicola includes 25 species distributed throughout South America. Herein we review the taxonomic status of P. parnaiba relative to P. canga and the specific identity of the population treated in previous studies as Pseudopaludicola sp. 3 from Barreirinhas in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The lack of differentiation in advertisement call, morphology, and mitochondrial markers from topotypes and different populations rejects the status of P. parnaiba and Pseudopaludicola sp. 3 from Barreirinhas as distinct species. For these reasons, we suggest to formally consider P. parnaiba as a junior synonym of P. canga. We also found that a population previously reported as P. facureae from central Brazil (Palmeiras de Goiás, Goiás) corresponds to a cryptic species that we describe here as a new species. Lastly, we provide for the first time the phylogenetic positions of P. giarettai, P. llanera and P. pusilla.

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de Andrade, F. S., Haga, I. A., Lyra, M. L., de Carvalho, T. R., Haddad, C. F. B., Giaretta, A. A., & Toledo, L. F. (2020). Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Pseudopaludicola parnaiba (Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leiuperinae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Brazilian Cerrado. European Journal of Taxonomy, (679). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.679
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