QUITO, Ecuador, June 2 (UPI) -- Deep in the forests of Ecuador's Llanganates National Park -- lands once frequented by ancient Incans -- live two frog species that had gone unnamed by scientists until very recently.
Researchers with the Museum of Zoology at Catholic University of Ecuador discovered the two new species of rain frogs while conducting field work in the national park. They named them Pristimantis llanganati and Pristimantis yanezi.
The Pristimantis genus is already one of the most diverse frog genera in the world. Now, it's two deeper.
"Both new species occur in a region with few amphibian collections and nothing is known about their abundance and ecology," scientists wrote in a new paper on the discovery, published this week in the journal ZooKeys.-read more
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