Abstract
A new species of Eleutherodactylus is described from a single locality in southern Boyacá. lt is the sister species of E. nervicus, known from the páramos associated with Laguna Chingaza in Departamento Cundinamarca. The new species is larger than E. nervicus and has larger digital disks.
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