PLOS ONE RESEARCH ARTICLE Fifty years after: A taxonomic revision of the amphibian species from the Ecuadorian biodiversity hotspot Abra de Zamora, with description of two new Pristimantis species 1,2 3 2,4 Paul SzeÂkelyID *, Juan SebastiaÂn EguigurenID , Leonardo Ordo ñez-DelgadoID , Diego Armijos-Ojeda2,4, Diana SzeÂkely2,5 a1111111111 1 Museo de ZoologõÂa, Universidad TeÂcnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, 2 Laboratorio de EcologõÂa Tropical y Servicios EcosisteÂmicos - EcoSs Lab, Departamento de Ciencias BioloÂgicas, Universidad TeÂcnica a1111111111 Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, 3 Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Center for Molecular and Cellular a1111111111 Bioengineering (CMCB), Technische UniversitaÈt Dresden (TUD), Dresden, Germany, 4 Programa de a1111111111 Doctorado en ConservacioÂn de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Internacional de Doctorado, Universidad Rey a1111111111 Juan Carlos, MoÂstoles, Madrid, Spain, 5 Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University Constanța, Constanța, Romania *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Citation: SzeÂkely P, Eguiguren JS, OrdoÂñez- Abstract Delgado L, Armijos-Ojeda D, SzeÂkely D (2020) Fifty Abra de Zamora is an important biodiversity hotspot in southern Ecuador. Between 1938 years after: A taxonomic revision of the amphibian species from the Ecuadorian biodiversity hotspot and 2010, eleven species of frogs were described from here: Lynchius flavomaculatus, Gas- Abra de Zamora, with description of two new trotheca psychrophila, Pristimantis balionotus, P. colodactylus, P. cryptomelas, P. percul- Pristimantis species. PLoS ONE 15(9): e0238306. tus, P. versicolor, P. vidua, Telmatobius cirrhacelis, P. andinognomus, and Atelopus https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238306 podocarpus. Unfortunately, many of these species were not re-encountered after their origi- Editor: Stefan LoÈtters, Universitat Trier, GERMANY nal description, and for the majority DNA samples were not available, making their phyloge- Received: May 20, 2020 netic position unknown.