Chioglossa Bocage, 1864
Chioglossa Bocage, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 264-265, also <. <395, Bocage, 1864, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, Ser. 2, 16: 249. Type species: Chioglossa lusitanica Bocage, 1864, by monotypy.
English Names
Golden-striped Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).
Distribution
Northwestern Spain and northern Portugal.
Comment
On the basis of DNA sequence evidence, Weisrock, Papenfuss, Macey, Litvinchuk, Polymeni, Ugurtas, Zhao, Jowkar, and Larson, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 41: 855-857, found Chioglossa to be the sister taxon of Mertensiella. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, on the basis of a study of legacy DNA sequences confirmed this arrangement.
Contained taxa
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