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Nymphargus laurae Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid, 2007

Laura’s glassfrog

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1955

Rediscovered in 2016-2018

 

Distribution

Ecuador

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. and McDiarmid, R. W. (2007). Revision of the characters of Centrolenidae (Amphibia: Anura: Athesphatanura), with comments on its taxonomy and the description of new taxa of glassfrogs. Zootaxa 1572: 1-82.

 

Other references:

Sánchez-Carvajal, M. J., Reyes-Ortega, G. C., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. and Ortega-Andrade, H. M. (2021). Rediscovery of Laura’s glassfrog Nymphargus laurae (Anura: Centrolenidae) with new data on its morphology, colouration, phylogenetic position and conservation in Ecuador. PeerJ 9: e12644. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12644

 

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