Almeida-Reinoso, Diego

Caminer, Marcel

Ron, Santiago

Varela, Andrea

The Hyloscirtus larinopygion group is a clade of 16 species of large hylids that inhabit cascading Andean streams. They have brown coloration that, in most species, contrasts with bright marks. Herein morphological and genetic evidence is used to describe a new species of the group from Cordillera del Cóndor, a sub-Andean mountain chain that has phytogeographic affinities with the Guianan Tepuis. The new species is characterized by dark-brown coloration with contrasting bright orange flecks and by the presence of an enlarged and curved prepollex protruding as a spine. The new species is closely related to H. tapichalaca and an undescribed species from the southern Andes of Ecuador. The genetic distance between H. hillisi sp. n. and its closest relative, H. tapichalaca, is 2.9% (gene 16S mtDNA). Our phylogeny and a review of recently published phylogenies show that amphibians from Cordillera del Cóndor have close relationships with either Andean or Amazonian species. Amphibians do not show the Condor-Guianan Tepuis biogeographic link that has been documented in plants

Ron, Santiago R.

Caminer, Marcel A.

Varela-Jaramillo, Andrea

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A new treefrog from Cordillera del Cóndor with comments on the biogeographic affinity between Cordillera del Cóndor and the Guianan Tepuis (Anura, Hylidae, Hyloscirtus)

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A new treefrog from Cordillera del C\uf3ndor with comments on the biogeographic affinity between Cordillera del C\uf3ndor and the Guianan Tepuis (Anura, Hylidae, Hyloscirtus)

A new treefrog from Cordillera del C\uf3ndor with comments on the biogeographic affinity between Cordillera del C\uf3ndor and the Guianan Tepuis (Anura, Hylidae, Hyloscirtus)

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