The Paquisha rain frog (cutín de Paquisha), a new frog species discovered in the Cordillera del Cóndor.

January 17, 2015.

Researchers from the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad and PUCE have just described a rain frog that inhabits a sandstone plateau, high in the Cordillera del Cóndor. The scientific name of the new species, Pristimantis paquishae, refers to the type locality, the scene of an armed conflict…