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Five new plethodontids from Costa Rica

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Freshly described tomorrow are five new lungless salamanders from the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica. The full paper is not yet available gratis:


EDUARDO BOZA-OVIEDO, SEAN M. ROVITO, GERARDO CHAVES, ADRIÁN GARCÍA-RODRÍGUEZ, LUIS G. ARTAVIA, FEDERICO BOLAÑOS & DAVID B. WAKE, 2012. Salamanders from the eastern Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica, with descriptions of five new species (Plethodontidae: Bolitoglossa, Nototriton, and Oedipina) and natural history notes from recent expeditions. Zootaxa 3309: 36–61

Abstract [FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]We describe five new species of lungless salamanders (Plethodontidae) from high mountain habitats along the border between Costa Rica and Panama: [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Bolitoglossa splendida[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times], [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Bolitoglossa aureogularis, Bolitoglossa kamuk[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times], [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Nototriton matama[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times], and [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Oedipina nimaso. [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]We also present phylogenetic hypotheses for the new taxa (with the exception of the [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Oedipina[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]) and their rel-atives based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data. The new species were discovered on a series of expeditions to remote areas (primarily over 1000 m elevation) of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica. [/FONT][/FONT]Key words[FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]: [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Bolitoglossa aureogularis [/FONT][/FONT]sp. nov.[FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times], [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]B. kamuk [/FONT][/FONT]sp. nov., [FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]B. splendida [/FONT][/FONT]sp. nov.[FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times], [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Nototriton matama [/FONT][/FONT]sp. nov., [FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Oedipina nimaso [/FONT][/FONT]sp. nov., [FONT=Times New Roman,Times][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]biogeography, Central America, Cordillera de Talamanca, taxonomy [/FONT][/FONT]
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