Bolitoglossa flavimembris (Schmidt, 1936)
Oedipus flavimembris Schmidt, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 158. Holotype: FMNH 20381, by original designation. Type locality: "Volcan Tajumulco, at 7200 feet, on the trail above El Porvenir, San Marcos [Department], Guatemala".
Magnadigita flavimembris — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 218.
Bolitoglossa flavimembris — Wake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386.
Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) flavimembris — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.
English Names
Yellow-legged Mushroomtongue Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29).
Yellow-legged Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 29).
Distribution
Known only from the slopes of Volcán Atitlán, Volcán Tajumulco, and Volcán Tacaná and from the mountains along the southwestern escarpment of the Guatemalan Plateau, at elevations between 1800-2200 m (Guatemala); adjacent border area of Chiapas, Mexico, to Volcán Tacaná.
Comment
In the Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) dunni group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa helmrichi group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 1-65. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 268, 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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