Urspelerpes Camp, Peterman, Milanovich, Lamb, Maerz, and Wake, 2009, J. Zool., London, 279: 87. Type genus: Urspelerpes brucei Camp, Peterman, Milanovich, Lamb, Maerz, and Wake, 2009, by original designation.
Patch-nosed salamanders (original publication; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31).
As for the single species.
The sister taxon of Eurycea according to the original publication. In the tribe Spelerpini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.
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