Ecuador surpasses 480 reptile species

November 29, 2019

A group of Ecuadorian, Peruvian and German researchers found for the first time in the Ecuadorian Amazon a snake species previously thought to be endemic to Peru. It is the Sipos de hocico rojizo, Chironius leucometapus, characterized by a reddish blotch on the snout. The finding was published in…