Vol. 2 No. 3 (2010), SECTION B: LIFE SCIENCES
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2010)

A new species of frog Pristimantis (Terrarana: Strabomantidae) of the cloud forests of the upper basin Rio Pastaza, Ecuador

SECTION B: LIFE SCIENCES
Published 2010-12-08
Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig
Fundación Oscar Efrén Reyes
Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Salomón R. Ramírez-Jaramillo
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
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Keywords

Pristimantis tungurahua
Andes

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Reyes-Puig, J. P., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., & Ramírez-Jaramillo, S. R. (2010). A new species of frog Pristimantis (Terrarana: Strabomantidae) of the cloud forests of the upper basin Rio Pastaza, Ecuador. ACI Avances En Ciencias E Ingenierías, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v2i3.48
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Abstract

A new species of frog of the genus Pristimantis is described from the cloud forests of the upper Pastaza basin, on the eastern versant of the central Andes of Ecuador. Pristimantis tungurahua sp. nov. is characterized by lacking cranial crests and vocal sacs, showing a visible tympanic membrane and annulus, conical tubercles on the upper eyelid and heel, and by having red coloration on the groin, underarm, and ventral surfaces in females (in males, red is restricted to the underarms and groins).

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