Check List 13(4): 121-125, doi: 10.15560/13.4.121
Notes on the distribution of Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) in Ecuador
Verónica L Urgilés‡§, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Nivicela‡|, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia¶§#‡ Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador§ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador| Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, División de Herpetología, Ecuador¶ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador# King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Corresponding author: Verónica L Urgilés ( vurgiles@uazuay.edu.ec ) Academic editor: Ivan Nunes © 2017 Verónica L Urgilés, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Nivicela, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Urgilés V, Sanchez-Nivicela J, Cisneros-Heredia D (2017) Notes on the distribution of Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) in Ecuador. Check List 13(4): 121-125. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.121 |  |
Abstract
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 southernmost locality for Ecuador (which also corresponds to the third known report from the province of Zamora-Chinchipe). In addition, we review the elevation range of the species, and propose to change the lowest elevation limit of G. testudinea from 1100 to 700 m.
Keywords
Andes; Amphibia; Anura; elevation; Hemiphractidae; new records; range extension