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Two new terrestrial narrow-toed frogs ( Niceforonia: Strabomantidae, Anura) from remote unexplored mountains in the Ecuadorian Andes

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By Ron SR, Spencer AJ, Juan P. Reyes-Puig
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Two new terrestrial narrow-toed frogs (Niceforonia: Strabomantidae, Anura) from remote unexplored mountains in the Ecuadorian Andes 1Fundación EcoMinga, Red de Protección Amenazados, Quito, Ecuador 2Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador 3Maestría en Conservación y Manejo de Recursos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador 4Fundación Oscar Efrén Reyes, Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador 5Reserva: The Youth Land Trust, Washington, Washington,...
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Update of species limits in the Pristimantis myersi clade (Anura: Craugastoridae), with the description of two new species from the western Andes of Ecuador

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By Ron SR, Rojas Soto OR, Pérez Lara MaB
| PeerJ
Terrestrial frogs of the genus Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, clearly represent an outstanding model organism for research in systematics, taxonomy, evolution, phylogenetics, and biogeography (Mendoza et al., 2015; Zumel, Buckley & Ron, 2022; Yánez-Muñoz et al., 2025). Research on this group can facilitate understanding of the mechanisms driving speciation in small vertebrates of the Andes (Mendoza et al., 2015; Vásquez-Restrepo, Ribeiro-Júnior & Sánchez-Pacheco, 2024).
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Three new Pristimantis species in the subgenus Huicundomantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from Reserva Biológica Cerro Plateado, southern Ecuador

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By Ron SR, Ryan MJ, Van Der Mark P
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Three new Pristimantis species in the subgenus Huicundomantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from Reserva Biológica Cerro Plateado, southern Ecuador 1Museo de Zoología, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador 2Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos (EcoSs-Lab), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador 3Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences,...
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Abundance in secret: a review of the genus Leptobrachium (Anura, Megophryidae) in India, with descriptions of two new species

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By Ron SR, Ahmed MF, Stuart BL, Sonali Garg
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Abundance in secret: a review of the genus Leptobrachium (Anura, Megophryidae) in India, with descriptions of two new species 1Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India 2Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America DOI 10.7717/peerj.20397 Academic Editor Viktor Brygadyrenko Subject Areas Biodiversity, Evolutionary Studies, Taxonomy, Zoology Keywords...
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Vast cryptic diversity in direct-developing frogs Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae): a new subgenus and the description of a new species from the eastern Andes of Ecuador

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By Ryan PD, de Oliveira RM, Ron SR, Keyko D. Loza-Carvajal
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Vast cryptic diversity in direct-developing frogs Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae): a new subgenus and the description of a new species from the eastern Andes of Ecuador 1Integrative Biology Laboratory, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Napo, Ecuador 2Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador 3Biogeography and Spatial Ecology Research Group, Life Sciences Faculty, Univerisidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Napo, Ecuador...
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High speciation in the cryptic Pristimantis celator clade (Anura: Strabomantidae) of the Mira river basin, Ecuador-Colombia

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By Ron SR, Ryan PD, Rojas Soto OR, Perez Lara MB
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Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft. Juan P. Reyes-Puig performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft. Carolina Reyes-Puig performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.
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Climate change effect on the widely distributed Palearctic plant bug species (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)

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By Clark PU, Graham CH, Ron SR, Hunter JD
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Species identification. The study was based on the collection preserved at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZISP), hosting ca. 700 specimens of Liocoris tripustulatus, ca. 1,000 specimens of Lygocoris pabulinus, and ca. 320 specimens of Lygus punctatus. The collection event data was entered into the Arthropod Easy Capture Database (https://research.amnh.org/pbi/locality/index.php).
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A new species of frog of the genus Noblella Barbour, 1930 (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador

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By Ron SR, Harvey MB, Jorge Brito M, Diego Batallas R
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The tropical Andes exhibit a high species diversity, with amphibians standing out as one of the richest taxonomic groups in the region (Duellman, 1999; Myers et al., 2000; Hutter, Lambert & Wiens, 2017; Luedtke et al., 2023).
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Simplifying the Centrolene buckleyi complex (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae): a taxonomic review and description of two new species

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By von May R, Ron SR, Lisa K, Roy BA
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Simplifying the Centrolene buckleyi complex (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae): a taxonomic review and description of two new species 1Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, U, niversidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador 2Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain 3Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Ecuador...
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A new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from white-sand forests of central Amazonia, Brazil

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By Albert JS, da Silva JMC, Ron SR, de Oliveira EA
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Conclusions Using morphology, bioacoustics and molecular data from three markers (16S, COI and RAG-1), we described a novel species of rain frog (genus Pristimantis) from an unexplored environment in the Amazonia: the white sand ecosystems. Description of Pristimantis campinarana sp. nov. reaffirms that the species richness of the west Amazonian anurans remains considerably underestimated even near to the largest and dynamically developing Amazonian metropole—Manaus.
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Integrative species delimitation helps to find the hidden diversity of the leaf-litter frog Ischnocnema manezinho (Garcia, 1996) (Anura, Brachycephalidae), endemic to the southern Atlantic Forest

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By Reid NM, Ron SR, de Oliveira EF, Bioacoustics Research Programm
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Discussion Our molecular results support the hypothesis of six evolutionarily independent lineages under the name of I. manezinho, therefore we suggest this taxon only applies to the individuals of Santa Catarina Island. However, despite our genetic results showing high support to differentiate five distinct candidate species, our morphometric and bioacoustics data do not validate all of them. These data support solely the differentiation of I.
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Two new syntopic species of glassfrogs (Amphibia, Centrolenidae, Centrolene) from the southwestern Andes of Ecuador

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By Ron SR, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Sánchez-Nivicela JC
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Unveiling the evolutionary relationships and the high cryptic diversity in Andean rainfrogs (Craugastoridae: Pristimantis myersi group)

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By Ron SR, da Silva HR, Graham CH, Yánez Muñoz MH
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Unveiling the evolutionary relationships and the high cryptic diversity in Andean rainfrogs (Craugastoridae: Pristimantis myersi group) 1Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Campus Cumbaya, Pichincha, Ecuador 2Facultad de Ciencias de Medio Ambiente, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador 3División de Herpetología, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INABIO, Quito,...
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Feeding ecology of the Terciopelo pit viper snake (Bothrops asper) in Ecuador

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By Alexander GJ, Douglas ME, Ron SR, de Silva A
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Data regarding Terciopelo prey records in literature The confusion caused by the use of common names is one of the reasons why the binomial nomenclature proposed by Linné is considered crucial in natural sciences (Bennett & Balick, 2014). In our review, we aimed to clarify some inaccuracies present in previous works (Sasa, Wasko & Lamar, 2009; Farr & Lazcano, 2017).
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A spectacular new species of Hyloscirtus (Anura: Hylidae) from the Cordillera de Los Llanganates in the eastern Andes of Ecuador

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By Ron SR, Perez Lara MB, Brito Molina J, Kim YE
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A spectacular new species of Hyloscirtus (Anura: Hylidae) from the Cordillera de Los Llanganates in the eastern Andes of Ecuador 1Departamento de Ambiente, Fundación Oscar Efrén Reyes, Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador 2Fundación Ecominga Red de Protección de Bosques Amenazados, Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador 3Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador 4Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, Germany 5Laboratorio de Biología...
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