Miguel Andrés Urgilés-Merchán

Miguel Andrés Urgilés-Merchán, Ecuadorean herpetologist.

Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.

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Yánez-Muñoz, M.H., Reyes-Puig, J.P., Batallas-Revelo, D., Broaddus, C., Urgilés-Merchán, M., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. & Guayasamin, J.M. 2021. A new Andean treefrog (Amphibia: Hyloscirtus bogotensis group) from Ecuador: an example of community involvement for conservation. PeerJ 9: e11914. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11914 Reference page.
Yánez-Muñoz, M.H., Torres-Carvajal, O., Reyes-Puig, J.P., Urgilés-Merchán, M.A. & Koch, C. 2021. A new and very spiny lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Echinosaura) from the Andes in northwestern Ecuador. PeerJ 9: e12523. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12523 Reference page.

Reyes-Puig, J.P., Urgilés-Merchán, M., Franco-Mena, D., Guayasamin, J.M., Batallas, D. & Reyes-Puig, C. 2023. Two new species of terrestrial frogs of the Pristimantis gladiator complex (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes, with insights on their biogeography and skull morphology. Zookeys 1180: 257–293. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1180.107333 Reference page.

Yánez-Muñoz, M.H., Reyes-Puig, J.P., Reyes-Puig, C., Lagla-Chimba, G., Paucar-Veintimilla, C., Urgilés-Merchán, M.A. & Carrión, J. 2025. High speciation in the cryptic Pristimantis celator clade (Anura: Strabomantidae) of the Mira river basin, Ecuador-Colombia. PeerJ 13: e18680: 1–50. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18680 Reference page.