Thorius Cope, 1869
Thorius Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 111. Type species: Thorius pennatulus Cope, 1869, by monotypy.
Thorius Anonymous, 1869, Am. Nat., 3: 222. Type species: Thorius pennatribus Anonymous (Cope), 1869, by monotypy. See Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 111, for authorship.
English Names
Mexican Pigmy Salamanders (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 15; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 36).
Pigmy Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34).
Distribution
Southern Veracruz and Puebla to Guerrero and Oaxaca, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico.
Comment
Hanken, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 1051-1073, discussed genetic variation and taxonomy of the genus. Hanken and Wake, 1994, Copeia, 1994: 573-589, and Hanken and Wake, 1998, Copeia, 1998: 312-345, described several new species. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.
Contained taxa
- Thorius adelos (Papenfuss and Wake, 1987)
- Thorius arboreus Hanken and Wake, 1994
- Thorius aureus Hanken and Wake, 1994
- Thorius boreas Hanken and Wake, 1994
- Thorius dubitus Taylor, 1941
- Thorius grandis Hanken, Wake, and Freeman, 1999
- Thorius infernalis Hanken, Wake, and Freeman, 1999
- Thorius insperatus Hanken and Wake, 1994
- Thorius lunaris Hanken and Wake, 1998
- Thorius macdougalli Taylor, 1949
- Thorius magnipes Hanken and Wake, 1998
- Thorius minutissimus Taylor, 1949
- Thorius minydemus Hanken and Wake, 1998
- Thorius munificus Hanken and Wake, 1998
- Thorius narismagnus Shannon and Werler, 1955
- Thorius narisovalis Taylor, 1940
- Thorius omiltemi Hanken, Wake, and Freeman, 1999
- Thorius papaloae Hanken and Wake, 2001
- Thorius pennatulus Cope, 1869
- Thorius pulmonaris Taylor, 1940
- Thorius schmidti Gehlbach, 1959
- Thorius smithi Hanken and Wake, 1994
- Thorius spilogaster Hanken and Wake, 1998
- Thorius troglodytes Taylor, 1941
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