Mateo A. Vega-Yánez

Four new species of Pristimantis myersi group (Anura: Craugastoridae) from Carchi, Ecuador: cryptic diversity in unique and threatened high-Andean ecosystems

This study describes four new species of frogs in the genus Pristimantis, belonging to the myersi group, and represents the first attempt to link the distribution of these species with the spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation cover in Carchi, showing a net loss of more than 9,000 hectares between 1985 and 2022.