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Urspelerpes Camp, Peterman, Milanovich, Lamb, Maerz, and Wake, 2009

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

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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.

English Names

Patch-nosed salamanders (original publication; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31).

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

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.

Contained taxa

  • Urspelerpes brucei Camp, Peterman, Milanovich, Lamb, Maerz, and Wake, 2009

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