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Title: A Pan-Amazonian species delimitation: High species diversity within the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae)
Authors: Rojas, Rommel R.
Fouquet, Antoine
Ron, Santiago R.
Hernández-Ruz, Emil José
Melo-Sampaio, Paulo Roberto
Chaparro, Juan Carlos
Vogt, Richard Carl
Carvalho, Vinícius Tadeu de
Pinheiro, Leandra Cardoso
Ávila, Róbson Waldemar
Farias, Izeni P.
Gordo, Marcelo
Hrbek, Tomas
Keywords: Amazophrynella
Amphibia
Biodiversity
Bufonidae
Climate Change
Discriminant Analysis
Dna Extraction
Gene Amplification
Gene Sequence
Hypothesis
Nucleotide Sequence
Phylogeny
Principal Component Analysis
Taxonomy
Unindexed Sequence
Issue Date: 2018
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: PeerJ
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 2018, Número 7
Abstract: Amphibians are probably the most vulnerable group to climate change and climatechange associate diseases. This ongoing biodiversity crisis makes it thus imperative to improve the taxonomy of anurans in biodiverse but understudied areas such as Amazonia. In this study, we applied robust integrative taxonomic methods combining genetic (mitochondrial 16S, 12S and COI genes), morphological and environmental data to delimit species of the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) sampled from throughout their pan-Amazonian distribution. Our study confirms the hypothesis that the species diversity of the genus is grossly underestimated. Our analyses suggest the existence of eighteen linages of which seven are nominal species, three Deep Conspecific Lineages, one Unconfirmed Candidate Species, three Uncategorized Lineages, and four Confirmed Candidate Species and described herein. We also propose a phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus and discuss its implications for historical biogeography of this Amazonian group. © 2018 Rojas et al.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.7717/peerj.4941
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