Eleutherodactylus bearsei new species (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from northeastern Peru

MCZ LIBRARY* OCCASIONAL PAPERS jyj^ \ 4 ^993 of the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas number 150, pages 1-7 30 june 1992 Eleutherodactylus bearsei New Species (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Northeastern Peru William E. Duellman 1 ABSTRACT Eleutherodactylus bearsei, belonging to the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, is named from the Rio Huallaga Drainage in the upper Amazon Basin near the base of the Andes in the Departamento San Martin. Peru. Eleutherodactylus bearsei is most similar to E. diadematus and E. platydactylus, allopatric species in the Amazon Basin and Andean slopes of the Andes in central and southern Peru, respectively. RESUMEN Eleutherodactylus bearsei, perteneciente al grupo Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus, se describe del drenaje del Rio Huallaga en la parte superior de la cuenca amazonica cerca de la base de los Andes en el Departamento de San Martin, Peru. Eleutherodactylus bearsei es mas similar a E. diadematus y E. platydactylus, especies alopatricas en la cuenca amazonica y las vertientes de los Andes en las partes central y meridional del Peru, respectivamente. Key words: Leptodactylidae, Eleutherodactylus bearsei new species, Amazonian Pern. Included in the collections of anuran amphibians made by a field party from The University of Kansas in the Departamento San Martin in northeast-ern Peru in 1989 were several new species. Some of these have been described — Ischnocnema saxatilis (Duellman, 1990), an Eleutherodactylus (Duellman, 1992), and eight species of centrolenids (Duellman and Schulte, 1992). To these may be added another species of Eleutherodactylus. In the following description, the terminology, method of measurements, and num-bered characters in the diagnosis follow Lynch and Duellman (1980); snout-'Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Natural History, and Professor, Department of Systematics and Ecology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA. © Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas. Lawrence. ISSN 009 1-7958

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