First country records of Pristimantis luscombei (Duellman and Mendelson) and Syncope tridactyla (Duellman and Mendelson) in eastern lowlands of Ecuador (amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae, Microhylidae)

Herpetology Notes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 251-256

  Mauricio Ortega Andrade, H ^a,b,c   Valencia, Jorge H ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b MUSEO ECUATORIANO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Ecuador)

^c Proyecto de Conservación de la Cuenca Baja del Pastaza   (Ecuador)

^d Fund Herpetologica Gustavo Orces   (Ecuador)

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