Mylena Masache and the #frog #species she discovered *while an undergrad* at Pontificia Universidad Católica del #Ecuador in #Quito
She and her colleagues named the frog after Neisi Dajomes, the first Ecuadorian woman to win Olympic gold at the Tokyo 2020 Games: Nymphargus dajomesae
The species is a glass frog (you can see through it from underneath) and is a sign of a much larger #amphibian hotspot in the Cordillera del Cóndor
Mylena is now in grad school
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
A secret from a hidden world: A new glassfrog of the genus Nymphargus (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador
The genus Nymphargus is the most speciose of the family Centrolenidae with 44 species. In this study, we describe a new species of Nymphargus and present an updated phylogeny.journals.plos.org
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