%0 Journal Article
%T A tiny new species of Platypelis from the Marojejy National Park in northeastern Madagascar (Amphibia: Microhylidae)
%A Frank Glaw
%A J£¿rn K£¿hler
%A Miguel Vences
%J European Journal of Taxonomy
%D 2012
%I Consortium of European Natural History Museums
%R 10.5852/ejt.2012.9
%X We describe a tiny new frog species of the genus Platypelis (Anura: Microhylidae: Cophylinae) from Marojejy National Park, northeastern Madagascar. Platypelis ravus sp. nov. differs from all other known Platypelis and Cophyla species by its small size (17-19 mm snout-vent length) and a combination of other morphological and bioacoustic characters. The new species seems to be most closely related to P. milloti with which it shares the principal colour pattern, but exhibits a yellow rather than red posterior venter. Uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence in a 16S rRNA gene fragment to all other known species of the genus (except P. cowanii for which no genetic data is available) is greater than 6%. We suggest the inclusion of the new species in the IUCN threat category ¡°Data Deficient¡±.
%K Microhylidae
%K Cophylinae
%K Platypelis ravus sp. nov.
%K Madagascar
%K Marojejy National Park
%U http://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/92