New country records for five species of Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870 from Ecuador

Five new species of frogs from the genus Pristimantis are reported for Ecuador, thus extending the distribution range for these species, previously described only for the southern Andes of Colombia and the northern Andes of Peru. The diversity of Pristimantis in Ecuador increases to 148 species, add...

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Veröffentlicht in:Check list (Luís Felipe Toledo) 2012-05, Vol.8 (2), p.286-290
Hauptverfasser: Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H., Toral-Contreras, Eduardo, Meza-Ramos, Paúl A., Reyes-Puig, Juan P., Bejarano-Muñoz, E. Patricia, Mueses-Cisneros, Jonh J., Paucar, Diego
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Zusammenfassung:Five new species of frogs from the genus Pristimantis are reported for Ecuador, thus extending the distribution range for these species, previously described only for the southern Andes of Colombia and the northern Andes of Peru. The diversity of Pristimantis in Ecuador increases to 148 species, adding five additional species to the total of 508 anurans already described for Ecuador.
ISSN:1809-127X
1809-127X
DOI:10.15560/8.2.286