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Title

Two New Species of Marsupial Frogs (Anura: Hylidae: Gastrotheca) from the Cordillera Oriental in Central Peru

Authors

Edgar Lehr, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow
William Duellman
Daniel Rodriguez
Rudolf von May

Publication Date

June 2004

Comments

Scientific Papers, Natural History Musuem is published by The Uiversity of Kansas.

Abstract

A distinctive new species of Gastrotheca from the Rio Chanchamayo Valley in the Cordillera Oriental in Peru is the only known member of the genus that lacks a tympanum. Another new species from the Cordillera de Carpish is distinctive in having a pair of lateral brood pouches and only basal webbing on the foot.

Disciplines

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Recommended Citation

Lehr, Edgar; Duellman, William; Rodriguez, Daniel; and von May, Rudolf, "Two New Species of Marsupial Frogs (Anura: Hylidae: Gastrotheca) from the Cordillera Oriental in Central Peru" (2004). Scholarship. 72.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bio_scholarship/72