Descripción
A new species of telmatobiinae leptodactylid frog genus
Batrachyla is described from the Nothofagus forest of Chubut province, Southern
Argentina. Batrachyla fitzroya sp. nov. is more closely related to B.
antartandica than to any other species of the genus. A cladistic analysis of
the genus Batrachyla applying parsimony is presented using morphological and
osteological characters. Polarity was based on the outgroup comparison method.
The data were analysed using Farris's phylogenetic program Hennig86, using the
implicit enumeration option. In the preferred phylogeny B. taeniata is the
sister species of the clade B. leptopus-(B. antartandica-B. fitzroya).
Basso, N. (1994). Una nueva especie de Batrachyla (Anura: leptodactylidae: telmatobiinae) de Argentina. Relaciones filogéneticas interespecíficas. Cuadernos de Herpetología, 8 (1), pp. 51-56
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