Bolitoglossa engelhardti (Schmidt, 1936)
Oedipus engelhardti Schmidt, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 156. Holotype: FMNH 21065, by original designation. Type locality: "Volcan Atitlan, 7,000 feet above Olas de Moca, Solola, Guatemala".
Magnadigita engelhardti — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 218.
Bolitoglossa engelhardti — Wake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386.
Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) engelhardti — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.
English Names
Engelhardt's Mushroomtongue Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29).
Engelhardt's Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 28).
Distribution
Extreme southeastern Chiapas, along Pacific versant to Volcán Atitlán, southwestern Guatemala, 1500-2100 m elevation.
Comment
In the Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) rostrata group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa dunni group of Elias, 1984, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 348: 1-20. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 265, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 558.
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