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- Title
First record of the limestone rainfrog Craugastor psephosypharus (Amphibia: Anura: Craugastoridae) in Mexico.
- Authors
Hernández-Ordóñez, Omar; de Jesús Cervantes-López, Martín; González-Hernández, Adriana; Andresen, Ellen; Reynoso, Víctor Hugo
- Abstract
We document the first record of Craugastor psephosypharus (Craugastoridae) for Mexico. In October 2014, we collected 2 individuals of this species and observed another 8 specimens in a tropical moist forest fragment in the Lacandona region, southeastern Mexico. We found the frogs during daytime in the rainy season, in the vicinity of a small karst cave system. This new record extends the known distribution of the species 75 km to the west, near the Guatemala-Mexico border. We measured air temperature and vegetation structure at the study site. Air temperatures inside karst cavities were 0.5 °C lower than outside. This is the westernmost record of the species. The finding increases the number of known amphibian species in Mexico to 378.
- Subjects
FROGS; CLASSIFICATION of amphibia; ATMOSPHERIC temperature measurements
- Publication
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2017, Vol 88, Issue 1, p260
- ISSN
1870-3453
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.rmb.2017.01.005