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
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0345097
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