Scientists found a new species hiding in a museum drawer for more than a century; the Ecuadorian frog had been mistaken for another species |
[ad_1] PC: Long overdue: a new, widespread, species of Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Chocó region and the synonymy of Pristimantis subsigillatus For more than a century, a frog living across the forests of western Ecuador and southern Colombia carried the wrong scientific name. It was not hidden in some unexplored corner of the rainforest,…