Cryptotriton García-París and Wake, 2000
Cryptotriton García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 58. Type species: Oedipus nasalis Dunn, 1924, by original designation.
English Names
Hidden Salamanders (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30).
Distribution
Mountains of northern Oaxaca, Mexico, through northern Chiapas, Mexico, the highlands of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, and the Sierra de las Minas, eastern Guatemala, to the Cordillera del Merendón and associated uplands in extreme northeastern Honduras.
Comment
See García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70, for discussion of systematic history of this group; all species were formerly included in Nototriton. See García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70, for discussion of phylogenetics. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 229, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.
Contained taxa
- Cryptotriton alvarezdeltoroi (Papenfuss and Wake, 1987)
- Cryptotriton monzoni (Campbell and Smith, 1998)
- Cryptotriton nasalis (Dunn, 1924)
- Cryptotriton sierraminensis Vásquez-Almazán, Rovito, Good, and Wake, 2009
- Cryptotriton veraepacis (Lynch and Wake, 1978)
- Cryptotriton wakei (Campbell and Smith, 1998)
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