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A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Cordillera Mache-Chindul in northwestern Ecuador, with comments on similar Colostethus and Hyloxalus

  • 1. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, U.S.A. Present address: Librarius Study Center, Estación Biológica Jatun Sacha, Provincia Napo, Ecuador.
  • 2. Centro Jambatu de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios, Fundación Jambatu, Giovanni Farina 566 y Baltra, San Rafael, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 3. Department of Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John's University 8000 Utopia Parkway-Queens Jamaica, NY 11439.
  • 4. Biogeography and Spatial Ecology Research Group, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, 7 km road to Muyuna, Tena, Ecuador. mauricio.ortega@ikiam.edu.ec; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9464-3688

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Vigle, Gregory O., Coloma, Luis A., Santos, Juan Carlos, Hernandez-Nieto, Sebastian, Ortega-Andrade, H. Mauricio, Paluh, Daniel J., Read, Morley (2020): A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Cordillera Mache-Chindul in northwestern Ecuador, with comments on similar Colostethus and Hyloxalus. Zootaxa 4896 (3): 342-372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.3.2

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