Cryptic diversity in toads of the Rhinella marina species group (Anura, Bufonidae) with a subjectively beautiful new species from Western Ecuador Author Menéndez-Guerrero, Pablo A. Laboratorio de Macroecología y Cambio Global, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca, Apartado Postal 17 - 01 - 2184, Quito, Ecuador & Redpath Museum, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H 3 A 2 K 6, Canada Author Lima, Sueny P. Author Santos Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca, Apartado Postal 17 - 01 - 2184, Quito, Ecuador & Translational Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University, 02 Grosvenor Hall, Athens, OH, USA Author Salazar-Nicholls, María-José Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca, Apartado Postal 17 - 01 - 2184, Quito, Ecuador & Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, USA Author Green, David M. Redpath Museum, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H 3 A 2 K 6, Canada Author Ron, Santiago R. Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca, Apartado Postal 17 - 01 - 2184, Quito, Ecuador text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2024 2024-02-20 202 3 1 26 https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad197 journal article 306574 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad197 046a1646-6c0e-4090-b2fb-1c9a49970aa5 0024-4082 14423165 7-01-2184

Table 1. Genetic uncorrected distances (p) among taxa of the Rhinella marina group (based on the 16S gene). Values represent the means and the minimum–maximum range of the genetic differentiation among taxa and the main clades shown in the phylogeny of R. marina species group. Species names with an asterisk belong to Clade C. Clade A corresponds to R. horribilis, Clade B to R. bella, Clade D most probably to R. poeppigii (see Discussion section), and Clade E to R. marina. Rhinella crucifer refers to the outgroup

	Taxa/clade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Clade A	-
2	Clade B	0.05	-
3	Clade D	0.042–0.061 0.046	0.044	-
4	Clade E	0.042–0.057 0.049	0.037–0.055 0.043	0.02	-
5	R. achavali *	0.044–0.064 0.052	0.035–0.057 0.048	0.015–0.029 0.029	0.029	-
6	R. arenarum *	0.05–0.059 0.055	0.042–0.055 0.046	0.026–0.031 0.031	0.022–0.033 0.03	0.007	-
7	R. crucifer	0.053–0.061 0.043	0.04–0.053 0.04	0.029–0.033 0.041	0.024–0.035 0.043	0.007–0.007 0.034	0.036	-
8	R. icterica *	0.04–0.051 0.055	0.035–0.044 0.048	0.037–0.046 0.031	0.037–0.048 0.029	0.033–0.035 0.007	0.035–0.037 0.009	0.036	-
9	R. rubescens *	0.053–0.061 0.052 0.05–0.059	0.04–0.057 0.048 0.042–0.055	0.029–0.033 0.029 0.026–0.031	0.024–0.035 0.029 0.022–0.033	0.007–0.007 0.004 0.004–0.004	0.009–0.009 0.007 0.007–0.007	0.035–0.037 0.034 0.033–0.035	0.005 0.002–0.007	-