Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Oedipus macrinii Lafrentz, 1930, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 6: 150. Holotype: MM N.V. 52/29; destroyed in WWII, according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 259. Type locality: "Cerro Espino, 1000 m hoch subtropischer Laubwald am Südhang der Sierra Madre del Sur bei Concordia, Staat Oaxaca, Mexiko". See Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 294, for comment.

Bolitoglossa macrinii — Taylor, 1941, Herpetologica, 2: 65.

Magnadigita macrinii — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 218.

Bolitoglossa macrinii — Wake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386.

Bolitoglossa (Oaxakia) macrinii — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 335.

English Names

Oaxacan Mushroomtongue Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).

Oaxacan Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 29).

Distribution

Pacific slopes at 1500-2500 m elevation in the Sierra Madre del Sur, between San Gabriel Mixtepec and Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Comment

Formerly a member of the Bolitoglossa macrinii group which now constitutes the subgenus Oaxakia according to Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336. Discussed by Papenfuss, Wake, and Adler, 1984 "1983", J. Herpetol., 17: 295-307. Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 224, suggest on the basis of allozyne evidence that two species masquerade under this name. Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2002, J. Herpetol., 36: 356-366, subsequently named Bolitoglossa zapoteca and Bolitoglossa oaxacensis from within this complex. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 271, provided a brief account and map. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 560.

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