PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

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Gabriela Parra Olea

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Full time Professor at the Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Biogeography Taxonomy

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Work details

Professor

Instituto de Biologia UNAM

Zoology

My job involves research in my area of expertise and teaching at undergrad and graduate levels. I am also required to participate in diverse committees for the university.

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January 17, 2025

Deep cryptic diversity in the Craugastor podiciferus Species Group (Anura: Craugastoridae) of Isthmian Central America revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear data

Erick Arias, Andrew J. Crawford, Andreas Hertz, Gabriela Parra Olea

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18212 PubMed 39834790

October 3, 2022

The fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans is not detected in wild and captive amphibians from Mexico

M. Delia Basanta, Victor Avila-Akerberg, Allison Q. Byrne, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, Tanya M. González Martínez, Yurixhi Maldonado-López, Erica Bree Rosenblum, Ireri Suazo-Ortuño, Gabriela Parra Olea, Eria A. Rebollar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14117 PubMed 36213512

May 26, 2020

Descriptions of five new species of the salamander genus Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from eastern Mexico and the status of three currently recognized taxa

Gabriela Parra Olea, Mirna G. Garcia-Castillo, Sean M. Rovito, Jessica A. Maisano, James Hanken, David B. Wake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8800 PubMed 32518712

January 3, 2019

The role of Central American barriers in shaping the evolutionary history of the northernmost glassfrog, Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (Anura: Centrolenidae)

Angela M. Mendoza, Wilmar Bolívar-García, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez, Roberto Ibáñez, Gabriela Parra Olea

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6115 PubMed 30627486

November 15, 2016

Biology of tiny animals: three new species of minute salamanders (Plethodontidae: Thorius) from Oaxaca, Mexico

Gabriela Parra-Olea, Sean M. Rovito, Mario García-París, Jessica A. Maisano, David B. Wake, James Hanken

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2694 PubMed 27896029

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July 18, 2025

Identification of Cassiopea sp. in Lake Macquarie, Australia and revision of the taxonomic status of Cassiopea maremetens Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Cassiopeidae)

Claire E. Rowe, Shane T. Ahyong, Will F. Figueira, Ingo Burghardt, Stephen J. Keable

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19669 PubMed 40692849

June 3, 2025

A new origin of the ‘modern’ lungfish dentition revealed by taxonomic overlap between Devonian and Carboniferous dipnoans

Amin El Fassi El Fehri, Alice M. Clement, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Merle Greif, Christian Klug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19389 PubMed 40487057

April 29, 2024

Systematics, distribution patterns and historical biogeography of the Central America wandering spider genus Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 (Araneae: Ctenidae)

Nicolas Hazzi, Gustavo Hormiga

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17242 PubMed 38699180

July 11, 2023

Environmental DNA and visual encounter surveys for amphibian biomonitoring in aquatic environments of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Walter Quilumbaquin, Andrea Carrera-Gonzalez, Christine Van der heyden, H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15455 PubMed 37456876

March 8, 2023

Two new species of Eleutherodactylus from western and central Mexico (Eleutherodactylus jamesdixoni sp. nov., Eleutherodactylus humboldti sp. nov.)

Thomas J. Devitt, Karen Tseng, Marlena Taylor-Adair, Sannidhi Koganti, Alice Timugura, David C. Cannatella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14985 PubMed 36915652

March 1, 2023

Unveiling the evolutionary relationships and the high cryptic diversity in Andean rainfrogs (Craugastoridae: Pristimantis myersi group)

Daniela Franco-Mena, Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego Andrade-Brito, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Fernando J.M. Rojas-Runjaic

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14715 PubMed 36879909

October 17, 2022

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

Jhael A. Ortega, Jorge Brito, Santiago R. Ron

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13761 PubMed 36275471

November 9, 2021

MtDNA species-level phylogeny and delimitation support significantly underestimated diversity and endemism in the largest Neotropical cichlid genus (Cichlidae: Crenicichla)

Oldřich Říčan, Klára Dragová, Adriana Almirón, Jorge Casciotta, Jens Gottwald, Lubomír Piálek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12283 PubMed 34820161

March 10, 2021

Settling taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in brine shrimps, Artemia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca), by integrating mitogenomics, marker discordances and nomenclature rules

Lucía Sainz-Escudero, E. Karen López-Estrada, Paula Carolina Rodríguez-Flores, Mario García-París

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10865 PubMed 33854829

October 21, 2020

DNA barcoding for identification of anuran species in the central region of South America

Ricardo Koroiva, Luís Reginaldo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Diego José Santana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10189 PubMed 33150083

October 2, 2020

Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador

Carolina Reyes-Puig, David B. Wake, Ramachandran Kotharambath, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Claudia Koch, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Santiago Ron

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9934 PubMed 33062424

October 17, 2019

Fundamental niche unfilling and potential invasion risk of the slider turtle Trachemys scripta

Sayra Espindola, Juan L. Parra, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7923 PubMed 31637143

October 15, 2019

Phylogeny and biogeography of the African Bathyergidae: a review of patterns and processes

Jacobus H. Visser, Nigel C. Bennett, Bettine Jansen van Vuuren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7730 PubMed 31637115

July 9, 2018

A Pan-Amazonian species delimitation: high species diversity within the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae)

Rommel R. Rojas, Antoine Fouquet, Santiago R. Ron, Emil José Hernández-Ruz, Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio, Juan C. Chaparro, Richard C. Vogt, Vinicius Tadeu de Carvalho, Leandra Cardoso Pinheiro, Robson W. Avila, Izeni Pires Farias, Marcelo Gordo, Tomas Hrbek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4941 PubMed 30013824

June 15, 2018

The use of chloroplast genome sequences to solve phylogenetic incongruences in Polystachya Hook (Orchidaceae Juss)

Narjara Lopes de Abreu, Ruy José Válka Alves, Sérgio Ricardo Sodré Cardoso, Yann J.K. Bertrand, Filipe Sousa, Climbiê Ferreira Hall, Bernard E. Pfeil, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4916 PubMed 29922511

February 27, 2018

Psychrophrynella glauca sp. n., a new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forests of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru

Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4444 PubMed 29507835

February 23, 2018

A striking new genus and species of cave-dwelling frog (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae: Asterophryinae) from Thailand

Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Montri Sumontha, Jitthep Tunprasert, Thiti Ruangsuwan, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Dmitriy V. Korost, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4422 PubMed 29497587