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

A striking new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Terrana: Strabomantidae) of the northwestern foothills of the Andes of Ecuador

SECTION B: LIFE SCIENCES
Published 2010-12-08
Jorge H. Valencia
Fundación Herpetológica Gustavo Orcés
Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
Raquel Betancourt-Yépez
Fundación Herpetológica Gustavo Orcés
Andrea Terán-Valdez
Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Juan M. Guayasamin
Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
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Keywords

Anura
Terrarana
Strabomantidae
Pristimantis viridis new species
Imbabura
Carchi
western Andes
Ecuador

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Valencia, J. H., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Betancourt-Yépez, R., Terán-Valdez, A., & Guayasamin, J. M. (2010). A striking new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Terrana: Strabomantidae) of the northwestern foothills of the Andes of Ecuador. ACI Avances en Ciencias E Ingenierías, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v2i3.43
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Abstract

We describe a new species of the diverse genus Pristimantis. The new species is characterized by having a green dorsum with reddish marks, acuminate snout with papilla at tip, conical ulnar and tarsal tubercles, and by lacking cranial crests. The new species inhabits the northwestern Andean slopes of Ecuador.

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