Notes on the distribution of Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) in Ecuador
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Biogeography, Zoology
- Keywords
- Andes, Anura, new records, Amphibia, range extension, elevation, Hemiphractidae
- Copyright
- © 2017 Urgilés et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2017. Notes on the distribution of Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) in Ecuador. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2710v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2710v1
Abstract
We present new information on the distribution of the marsupial frog Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) in Ecuador. We provide the first record from the province of Cañar, and the country’s southernmost locality (which also corresponds to the third known report from the province of Zamora-Chinchipe). In addition, we discuss the validity of the locality of Loreto for this species. Based on this discussion, we review the elevation range of the species and propose to change the lowest elevation limit of Gastrotheca testudinea from 1100 to 700 m.
Author Comment
This manuscript contains new information on the distribution of an amphibian species from Ecuador. A version of this manuscript was submitted to a journal. However, this manuscript contains complete information for all data, and it will serve as a reference to other papers about frogs of the genus Gastrotheca.