A new species of rainfrog (genus Eleutherodactylus) from the Serranía de Tabasará, west-central Panama and reanalysis of the fitzingeri species group

Herpetologica

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 519-529

  Savage, Jay M ^a   Hollingsworth, Bradford D ^b   Lips, Karen R ^c   Jaslow, Alan P ^d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anura; Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri species group; Leptodactylidae; New species; Panama

Indexed keywords

FROG; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; TABASARA MOUNTAINS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS CUAQUERO; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS EMCELAE; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS FITZINGERI; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS MELANOSTICTUS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS MONNICHORUM; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS PHASMA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS RAYO; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10644278101     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/03-29     Document Type: Article

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