Bradytriton Wake and Elias, 1983
Bradytriton Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 3. Type species: Bradytriton silus Wake and Elias, 1983, by original designation.
English Names
Finca Chiblac Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).
Distribution
Known only from the immediate vicinity of the type locality in extreme northwestern Guatemala, on the eastern slopes of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes.
Comment
Wiens, Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2007, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 274: 918-928, placed Bradytriton as the sister taxon of Oedipina. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.
Contained taxa
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