Study of the evolution of marsupial frogs (family Hemiphractidae) reveals complex biogeography.

May 9, 2013.

David Blackburn and William Duellman have just published a new phylogeny of marsupial frogs in which they show that the Andes of Ecuador harbor two species groups of independent evolutionary origin. Additionally, the work reports for the first time the presence of Gastrotheca lateonota in Ecuador…