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Zootaxa, (Anura: Hemiphractidae) Zootaxa 1883: 28–68 (2008) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2008 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) A taxonomic revision of frogs of the genus Cryptobatrachus (Anura: Hemiphractidae) JOHN D. LYNCH Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Apartado 7495, Bogotá. E-mail: [email protected] Table of contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................................28 Resumen ...........................................................................................................................................................................29 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................29 Materials and methods .....................................................................................................................................................31 Sexual Dimorphism ..........................................................................................................................................................33 Other characters ...............................................................................................................................................................45 Taxonomic accounts .........................................................................................................................................................58 Cryptobatrachus boulengeri Ruthven, 1916 .....................................................................................................................58 Cryptobatrachus sp. ..........................................................................................................................................................59 Cryptobatrachus conditus sp. nov. ....................................................................................................................................59 Cryptobatrachus fuhrmanni (Peracca, 1914) ....................................................................................................................60 Cryptobatrachus nicefori Cochran & Goin, 1970 ............................................................................................................61 Cryptobatrachus pedroruizi sp. nov. .................................................................................................................................62 Cryptobatrachus ruthveni sp. nov. ....................................................................................................................................63 Phylogenetic relationships ...............................................................................................................................................64 Geographic patterns of distribution ..................................................................................................................................64 Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................66 References ........................................................................................................................................................................66 Appendix I. Specimens examined ....................................................................................................................................67 Abstract Hemiphractid frogs of the genus Cryptobatrachus are nearly exclusive to Colombia and are distributed over an altitudi- nal range between 360 and 2400 meters on the three cordilleras and the massif of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. To the three species currently recognized, three additional species are named (C. conditus, C. pedroruizi, and C. ruthveni). The genus is monophyletic and all but the cis-Andean C. nicefori form a clade (defined by the presence of adhesive pads on some subarticular tubercles of the hand and foot). All but C. fuhrmanni and C. nicefori form an additional clade in northern Colombia. Two (or three) species are found on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and two other species are found on the Serranía de Perijá. The most widely distributed species (C. fuhrmanni) occurs on all three Andean cordille- ras without apparent geographic variation. Key words: Biogeography, Cryptobatrachus, Frogs, Sexual dimorphism, Systematics, Taxonomy 28 Accepted by M. Vences: 5 Aug. 2008; published: 24 Sept. 2008.
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