Abstract
We describe a new species of the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus Group from the Atlantic Forest of the southern region of State of Bahia, Brazil. It can be distinguished from all species of the D. leucophyllatus Group on the basis of morphological characters (especially its unique dorsal pattern and snout in dorsal view), advertisement calls and divergence in mitochondrial DNA gene sequences. The inclusion of D. anceps on the group remains controversial but our phylogenetic analyses do not recover the new species as sister to syntopic species of the D. leucophyllatus Group (with or without D. anceps). These results also highlight the palimpsest that is past relation between the Atlantic and Amazon forests.
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Anura / anatomy & histology
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Anura / classification*
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Anura / genetics*
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Bayes Theorem
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Brazil
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DNA, Mitochondrial / chemistry
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DNA, Mitochondrial / genetics
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DNA, Mitochondrial / metabolism
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Female
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Male
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Phylogeny
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Species Specificity
Grants and funding
Scholarships were provided by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq—Project: 404417/2015-9 and Process: #150372/2016-7) to IRD and by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo—FAPESP—#2007/57067-9; #2012/12500-5; #2008/50928-1 and #2013/50741-7 (P.I. Célio F. B. Haddad) and Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza (0991_20132) partially funded this study. Célio Haddad thanks to CNPq for a research fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.