New species of rain frog (cutín) from the Amazon of Ecuador and Peru.

December 29, 2014.

Mauricio Ortega and Pablo Venegas published a few weeks ago a taxonomic revision of two Amazonian species of Pristimantis. In the study they show that P. luscombei actually corresponds to the species that had traditionally been identified as P. achuar. The species previously referred to as “P…