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Notes on the distribution of Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) in Ecuador
- 1. Museo de Zoología, Laboratorio de Herpetología, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador. División de Herpetología, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
- 2. División de Herpetología, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador. Department of Geography, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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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.
Notes
VLU and JCSN are thankful to Florian Werner for his tutorshipand to Danny Villalta and Fredy Nugra for their help in the field. Work by VLU and JCS waspossible thanks to research funding provided by Universidad del Azuay, under budget code Fondos UDA 2016 [39, 2016]. DFCH is thankful to Jorge Brito for sharing data of his specimens of G. testudinea from Zuñac, Machinaza Alto and Paquisha Alto, andto Roy W. McDiarmid, George R. Zug, and W. Ron Heyer for access to specimens at USNM and provision of working space and hospitality. Work by DFCH was supported by the 2002 Research Training Program (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) and the Smithsonian Women's Committee; Programa "Becas de Excelencia", Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT), Ecuador; Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; María Elena Heredia and Laura Heredia. We are grateful to the Biodiversity Heritage Library BHL and the American Museum of Natural History for making freely available important literature.
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Subjects
- Gastrotheca testudinea
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