Bolitoglossa altamazonica (Cope, 1874)
Oedipus altamazonicus Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 120. Syntypes: ANSP or USNM, now lost or destroyed, according to Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 13. Type locality: "Nauta", Departamento de Loreto, Peru.
Geotriton altamazonicus — Smith, 1877, Tailed Amph.: 77.
Spelerpes altamazonicus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 71.
Oedipus altamazonicus — Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 396.
Bolitoglossa altamazonica — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 219. Ginés, 1959, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 19: 100.
Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) altamazonica — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.
English Names
Nauta Mushroomtongue Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29).
Distribution
Eastern and lower slopes of the Andes from Venezuela and Colombia to Bolivia and east into adjacent Brazil.
Comment
In the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) adspersa group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa altamazonica group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 1-65. See account by Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 13. Crump, 1978 "1977", Herpetologica, 33: 415-426, discussed diagnostic features and habitat preference. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 52, noted that this species is likely a composite of several species (in part amerliorated by the removal of Bolitoglossa paraensis from synonymy by Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336). Schargel and Rivas-Fuenmayor, 2003, Herpetozoa, 16: 94-96, provided the Venezuelan record from the state of Táchira. Lynch, 2006, Caldasia, 28: 136, noted that a previous record from the Magdalena Valley in Colombia was based on a misidentification. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 259, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Köhler and Lötters, 1999, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 48: 269, discussed briefly the known range in Bolivia. García-París, Parra-Olea, and Wake, 2008, Herpetol. J., 18: 23-31, reported on the phylogenetics of the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) subpalmata group. Acosta-Galvis and Gutiérrez-Lamus, 2012, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 52: 212, suggested that records attributed to this species form the Magdalena Valley of Colombia may actually be Bolitoglossa lozanoi.
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