Herpetofauna of the Bilsa Biological Station, province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador

H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade; Juliet Bermingham; Carlos Aulestia; Christian Paucar

doi:10.15560/6.1.119

Herpetofauna of the Bilsa Biological Station, province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador

H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade
, Juliet Bermingham
, Carlos Aulestia
, Christian Paucar

Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
Fundación EcoCiencia
Bilsa Biological Station
Universidad Central del Ecuador

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The Bilsa Biological Station is located on the Mache-Chindul mountains and protects some of the last rainforest remnants in the province of Esmeraldas, northwestern Ecuador. Since 2004, we have been inventorying the amphibians and reptiles of Bilsa. We found 109 species of herpetofauna (37 amphibians and 72 reptiles), representing 8 % and 18 % of the known species from Ecuador, respectively. We report distribution extensions for Sachatamia albomaculata, Hyalinobatrachium valerioi, Pristimantis muricatus, and P. rosadoi, and report the presence of several putatively undescribed species. We propose the Mache-Chindul mountains as a Key Biodiversity Area within the West Ecuadorian Endemic Area.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-154
Number of pages	36
Journal	Check List
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15560/6.1.119
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes

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