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Phytogeographic patterns and cryptic diversity in an aposematic toad from NW Argentina.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Nov 2017
Clemente-Carvalho Rute B, Vaira Marcos, King Laura E, Koscinski Daria, Bonansea Maria I, Lougheed Stephen C
Abstract excerpt
The Yungas Redbelly Toad, Melanophryniscus rubriventris, is patchily distributed in Argentina, confined to the upland portion (1000-2000m above sea level) of the montane forests of northern and central regions of Salta, and in central-eastern and south-eastern Jujuy. This species is known for its striking aposematic color variation across its geographic distribution, and was once treated as a complex of three...
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