The small and inconspicuous majority: Revealing the megadiversity and historical biogeography of the Pristimantis unistrigatus species group (Anura, Strabomantidae …

AT Mônico, ED Koch, M Ferrão, IY Fernandes… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
With more than 600 recognized species, the genus Pristimantis is already the most diverse
among vertebrates, but described species only represent a fraction of the actual diversity in …

A new Andean treefrog (Amphibia: Hyloscirtus bogotensis group) from Ecuador: an example of community involvement for conservation

MH Yánez-Muñoz, JP Reyes-Puig, D Batallas-Revelo… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
We provide several lines of evidence to delimit a new species of Hyloscirtus and define its
phylogenetic position inside the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group. The new species is the sister …

The Pristimantis trachyblepharis species group, a clade of miniaturized frogs: description of four new species and insights into the evolution of body size in the genus

D Zumel, D Buckley, SR Ron - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Species richness in the genus Pristimantis is underestimated due to the existence of
morphologically cryptic species. This is worsened by the low sampling effort and the lack of …

Six new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Llanganates National Park and Sangay National Park in Amazonian cloud forests of Ecuador

JA Ortega, J Brito, SR Ron - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
We describe six new species of rainfrogs of the genus Pristimantis (Strabomantidae) from
Amazonian cloud forests in Ecuador. We also present a phylogeny showing the …

Molecular and Morphological Assessment of Rain Frogs in the Pristimantis orestes Species Group (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) with the Description of Three …

P Székely, D Székely… - Herpetological …, 2023 - meridian.allenpress.com
We review the species content of the Pristimantis orestes group and, by integrating genetic
and morphological data, we distinguish and describe three new cryptic species from the …

[PDF][PDF] A new cryptic species of the Pristimantis lacrimosus group (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes.

JC Carrión-Olmedo, SR Ron - Evolutionary Systematics, 2021 - evolsyst.pensoft.net
With 566 species, the neotropical genus Pristimantis is the most speciose vertebrate genus.
As a result of its striking diversity, taxonomic reviews remain a challenge. Herein, we present …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic delimitation of Pristimantisorestes (Lynch, 1979) and P. saturninoi Brito et al., 2017 and description of two new terrestrial frogs from the …

VL Urgiles, P Székely, D Székely, N Christodoulides… - ZooKeys, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the genus Pristimantis, species are often combined into taxonomic units called species
groups. The taxonomy of these groups is frequently inaccurate due to the absence of genetic …

[HTML][HTML] A new species of terrestrial frog Pristimantis (Strabomantidae) from the upper basin of the Pastaza River, Ecuador

C Reyes-Puig, JP Reyes-Puig, DA Velarde-Garcéz… - ZooKeys, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We describe a new species of Pristimantis from the montane forest of the Río Zuñag
Ecological Reserve, upper basin of the Pastaza River, Ecuador. Pristimantismalliisp. n. is …

A new species of Andean mouse of the genus Thomasomys (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) from the eastern Andes of Ecuador

TE Lee Jr, N Tinoco, J Brito - Vertebrate Zoology, 2022 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
We name and describe a new species of Andean mouse from the eastern slope of the
Andes of central Ecuador (Sangay National Park). This rodent is large-bodied (head-body …

Fifty years after: A taxonomic revision of the amphibian species from the Ecuadorian biodiversity hotspot Abra de Zamora, with description of two new Pristimantis …

P Székely, JS Eguiguren, L Ordóñez-Delgado… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Abra de Zamora is an important biodiversity hotspot in southern Ecuador. Between 1938
and 2010, eleven species of frogs were described from here: Lynchius flavomaculatus …