{"id":514167,"date":"2024-07-10T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=514167"},"modified":"2024-07-10T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:08:57","slug":"unique-fauna-at-pico-da-neblina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/unique-fauna-at-pico-da-neblina\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique fauna at Pico da Neblina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near the flag at the top of Pico da Neblina that marks it as the highest point in Brazil, at an altitude of almost 3,000 meters, scientists turned over a rock and found a small brown frog, about 2 centimeters (cm) long. They had no idea how to classify it. About a thousand meters farther down the mountainside, they found another unknown amphibian hiding in the grass. Genetic sequencing revealed the reason they were unable to identify the animals: both belonged to new families. Each of these families contains only the newly discovered species (for now), which were named <em>Neblinaphryne mayeri<\/em> and <em>Caligophryne doylei<\/em>. The former is in tribute to General Sinclair James Mayer, responsible for liaising between university researchers and the Army. \u201cWithout him, our expeditions to Pico da Neblina in 2017 and to Serra do Imeri in 2022 would never have happened,\u201d says zoologist Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo. The latter is a reference to the book <em>The Lost World<\/em> by Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859\u20131830). The newly described families may be the vestiges of a nearly extinct fauna, with the researchers describing the mountainous region of the Amazon as both a cradle where new species emerge and a museum that holds testimonies of the past (<em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution<\/em>, November 22).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_514168\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-sapos-2024-01-site-1140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-514168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-sapos-2024-01-site-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-sapos-2024-01-site-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-sapos-2024-01-site-1140-250x97.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-sapos-2024-01-site-1140-700x273.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-sapos-2024-01-site-1140-120x47.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Renato Recoder\u2009\/\u2009USP\u2002| Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues\u2009\/\u2009USP (<em>C. doylei<\/em>)\u2002<\/span><\/a> <em>Neblinaphryne mayeri<\/em> (<em>left<\/em>) and <em>Caligophryne doylei<\/em> (<em>right<\/em>): unique members of new amphibian families<span class=\"media-credits\">Renato Recoder\u2009\/\u2009USP\u2002| Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues\u2009\/\u2009USP (<em>C. doylei<\/em>)\u2002<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists discover two new families of frogs at Pico da Neblina","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[209,231,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-514167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biology","tag-evolution","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514189,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514167\/revisions\/514189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=514167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}