A new species of the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from cloud forests of Peru

Herpetologica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 114-122

  Padial, José M ^a   Chaparro, Juan C ^b   De La Riva, Ignacio ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco   (Peru)

Author keywords

Anura; Brachycephalidae; Eleutherodactylus discoidalis group; New species; Peru

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; FROG; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

APURIMAC; CUZCO [PERU]; KOSNIPATA VALLEY; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANURA; BRACHYCEPHALIDAE; DUDLEYA EDULIS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS DISCOIDALIS; INFLECTARIUS INFLECTUS;

EID: 34247560679     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[114:ANSOTE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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