GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION, ADVERTISEMENT CALL DESCRIPTION, AND PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF Pristimantis taeniatus (ANURA: CRAUGASTORIDAE)

Abstract

Pristimantis taeniatus (Boulenger 1912) is a relatively common terrarana in Colombia and Panama, recently recorded from Costa Rica. However, the taxonomic status and the phylogenetic position of the Costa Rican population are currently unknown. Here, we report P. taeniatus from two new localities in Costa Rica, describe the advertisement call and assess the phylogenetic position within its distribution range using available molecular sequences and some newly generated sequences for this study. We found that P. taeniatus is formed by two clades with deep genetic distances hat might represent different species.