TY - JOUR
T1 - A new species of Caecilia (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) from the Magdalena valley region of Colombia
AU - Acosta-Galvis, Andrés R.
AU - Torres, Mauricio
AU - Pulido-Santacruz, Paola
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Santander Bio, a project funded by the Sistema General de Regalías, administered by the Departamento Nacional de Planeación (BPIN 2017000100046), executed by the Gobernación de Santander, and operated by the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt and the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Inter-administrative Agreement 2243, Gobernación de Santander). Specimens were collected under a permit issued by the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (Decree 1376 of 2013). We thank Javier Barriga for providing invaluable support during fieldwork. We specially thank Marjorie Pinzón Arias for interchanging knowledge with local people from El Carmen de Chucurí to come up with the name of the new species. Special thanks to the inhabitants of the Vereda La Belleza, El Carmen de Chucurí municipality, for participating in and allowing us to carry out the biodiversity inventories. We are also grateful to Miguel Torres and Daniela García for collaborating actively on discovering and collecting several specimens of the new species. In addition, we thank the collaboration of Yeison Tolosa in the process of obtaining material of Microcaecilia nicefori. Mark Wilkinson, David Gower, and Santiago J. Sánchez-Pacheco provided comments, suggestions and corrections that greatly improved the manuscript. Special thanks to Eduardo Tovar-Luque for his expert technical assistance with the molecular work.
Funding Information:
This research was supported by Santander Bio, a project funded by the Sistema General de Regalías, administered by the Departamento Nacional de Planeación (BPIN 2017000100046), executed by the Gobernación de Santander, and operated by the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt and the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Inter-administrative Agreement 2243, Gober-nación de Santander). Specimens were collected under a permit issued by the Insti-tuto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (Decree 1376 of 2013). We thank Javier Barriga for providing invaluable support during fieldwork. We specially thank Marjorie Pinzón Arias for interchanging knowledge with local people from El Carmen de Chucurí to come up with the name of the new species. Special thanks to the inhabitants of the Vereda La Belleza, El Carmen de Chucurí municipality, for participating in and allowing us to carry out the biodiversity inventories. We are also grateful to Miguel Torres and Daniela García for collaborating actively on discovering and collecting several specimens of the new species. In addition, we thank the collaboration of Yeison Tolosa in the process of obtaining material of Microcaecilia nicefori. Mark Wilkinson, David Gower, and Santiago J. Sánchez-Pacheco provided comments, suggestions and corrections that greatly improved the manuscript. Special thanks to Eduardo Tovar-Luque for his expert technical assistance with the molecular work.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - A new species of the genus Caecilia (Caeciliidae) from the western foothills of the Serranía de los Yariguíes in Colombia is described. Caecilia pulchraserrana sp. nov. is similar to C. degenerata and C. corpulenta but differs from these species in having fewer primary annular grooves and a shorter body length. With this new species, the currently recognized species in the genus are increased to 35. Mitochondrial DNA sequences, including newly sequenced terminals representing two additional, previously unanalyzed species, corroborate the phylogenetic position of the new species within Caecilia and the monophyly of the genus. This analysis also included newly sequenced terminals of Epicrionops aff. parkeri (Rhinatrematidae) and trans-Andean Microcaecilia nicefori (Siphonopidae). Evidence was found for the non-monophyly of the family Siphonopidae and the siphonopid genera Microcaecilia and Siphonops. The implications of these results for caecilian systematics are discussed and the status of the trans-Andean populations of Caecilia degenerata is commented upon.
AB - A new species of the genus Caecilia (Caeciliidae) from the western foothills of the Serranía de los Yariguíes in Colombia is described. Caecilia pulchraserrana sp. nov. is similar to C. degenerata and C. corpulenta but differs from these species in having fewer primary annular grooves and a shorter body length. With this new species, the currently recognized species in the genus are increased to 35. Mitochondrial DNA sequences, including newly sequenced terminals representing two additional, previously unanalyzed species, corroborate the phylogenetic position of the new species within Caecilia and the monophyly of the genus. This analysis also included newly sequenced terminals of Epicrionops aff. parkeri (Rhinatrematidae) and trans-Andean Microcaecilia nicefori (Siphonopidae). Evidence was found for the non-monophyly of the family Siphonopidae and the siphonopid genera Microcaecilia and Siphonops. The implications of these results for caecilian systematics are discussed and the status of the trans-Andean populations of Caecilia degenerata is commented upon.
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U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.884.35776
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.884.35776
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074392967
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2019
SP - 135
EP - 157
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 884
ER -