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OCCASIONAL PAPERS 2 1 of the NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas NUMBER 173, PAGES 1-7 20 MAY 1995 A New Fat Little Frog (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylvs) from Lofty Andean Grasslands of Southern Ecuador John D. Lynch and William E. Duellman School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA and Division of Herpetology, Natural History Museum and Department of Systematics and Ecology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2454, USA ABSTRACT A new species in the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group is named from the Cordillera Occidental in southern Ecuador. The new species is terrestrial in paramo dominated by bunch grass. Key words: Leptodactylidae; Eleutherodactylus philipi new species; Ecuador; Andes. RESUMEN Se describe una especie nueva en el grupo Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus de la Cordillera Occidental en el sur del Ecuador. La especie nueva es terrestre en el paramo donde predominan racimos de pasto. Palabras claves: Leptodactylidae; Eleutherodactylus philipi especie nueva; Ecua-dor; Los Andes. More than a quarter century ago, Philip S. Humphrey assumed the directorship of the Natural History Museum at The University of Kansas and encouraged attention to the Neotropical fauna. When he arrived in Kansas, each of us was already interested in Neotropical frogs, and our research on these organisms has benefited from Phil's interests. The rich eleutherodactyline frog fauna of the Andes of southern Ecuador was de-scribed by one of us (Lynch, 1979) but novelties continue to be discovered. © Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence. ISSN :009 1-7958

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A new fat little frog (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) from lofty Andean grasslands of southern Ecuador

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