Oedipina Keferstein, 1868

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Oedipina

Oedipina Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 299. Type species: Oedipina uniformis Keferstein, 1868, by monotypy. Also described as new by Keferstein, 1868, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1868: 331.

Ophiobatrachus Gray, 1868, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 2: 297. Type species: Ophiobatrachus vermicularis Gray, 1868 (= Oedipina uniformis Keferstein, 1868), by monotypy. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 75; Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34.

Opheobatrachus — Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 101. Variant spelling.

Haptoglossa Cope, 1893, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 31: 334. Type species: Haptoglossa pressicauda Cope, 1893, by monotypy. Synonymy by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34.

Oedopina — Hilton, 1946, J. Entomol. Zool., Pomona, 38: 38. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Oedopinola Hilton, 1946, J. Entomol. Zool., Pomona, 38: 38. Type species: Oedipus complex Dunn, 1924, by original designation. Synonymy by Tanner, 1950, Great Basin Nat., 10: 37-44.

English Names

Tropical Worm Salamanders (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 13; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30).

Worm Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).

Distribution

Chiapas, Mexico, south through Central America to western Colombia and south-central Ecuador.

Comment

Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 1-64, who revised the genus, recognized two species groups, the Oedipina parvipes group and the Oedipina uniformis group; these were subsequently recognized as the subgenera Oedopinola and Oedipina, respectively, by García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70. See Good and Wake, 1997, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 45: 1185-1208, for discussion of relationships within the genus and a partial revision. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 145-157, provided a key and accounts for the species of Costa Rica. McCranie, Vieites, and Wake, 2008, Zootaxa, 1930: 1-17, suggested that Oedipina is the sister taxon of Nototriton and that Oeditriton (subgenus of Oedipina) is the sister taxon of the subgenera Oedipina and Oediopinola. McCranie and Townsend, 2011, Zootaxa, 2990: 59-68, presented a tree of the species. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.

Contained taxa

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