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Hyloscirtus conscientia Yánez-Muñoz, Reyes-Puig, Batallas-R., Broaddus, Urgilés-Merchán, Cisneros-Heredia, and Guayasamin, 2021
Hyloscirtus conscientia Yánez-Muñoz, Reyes-Puig, Batallas-Revelo, Broaddus, Urgilés-Merchán, Cisneros-Heredia, and Guayasamin, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e11914): 8. Holotype: DHMECN 13973, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Dracula (0.983578397; −78.29651972 , 1,495 m), Sector El Pailón Chico, province of Carchi, Republic of Ecuador". LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:38AD2D96-56EF-4AE0-AD98-6E4057CCA0D7
English Names
Chical Nubulous Stream-Frog (original publication).
Distribution
Known only from the Dracula Reserve Conservation Area and Dracula Youth Reserve, managed by Reserva Youth Land Trust, western slopes of the Andes, Carchi Province, northern Ecuador, 1495 to 1750 m elevation; restricted to montane cloud forest in the San Juan River drainage, in the Mira basin. Expected in adjacent Colombia.
Comment
In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group, Hyloscirtus alytolylax complex, the sister taxon of Hyloscirtus masphi, according to the original publication, where advertisement call, external morphology, morphometrics, and molecular markers were detailed.
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