Bolitoglossa cerroensis (Taylor, 1952)
Magnadigita cerroensis Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 724. Holotype: KU 29961, by original designation. Type locality: "Cerro de la Muerte at approximately 7000 feet elevation, Pacific slope, 2 km. below Millville [= Villa Mills] on the Pan American Highway", Cantón de Pérez Zeledón, Cartago Province, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 108, commented on the type locality.
Bolitoglossa cerroensis — Wake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386.
Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) cerroensis — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.
English Names
Millville Mushroomtongue Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29).
Distribution
Montane rainforest in talus on steep slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica, 2530-2990 m elevation.
Comment
Redescribed by Brame, 1965, Abh. Ber. Naturkd. Magdeburg, 11: 105-118. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 130. In the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) epimela group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa adspersa group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 1-65. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 249-250, provided a brief account and map. See García-París, Parra-Olea, and Wake, 2008, Herpetol. J., 18: 23-31, for systematic comments.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
