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Bolitoglossa minutula Wake, Brame, and Duellman, 1973

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Bolitoglossa

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Bolitoglossa minutula Wake, Brame, and Duellman, 1973, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 248: 7. Holotype: KU 116554, by original designation. Type locality: "north slope of Cerro Pando, 1920 m (6298 ft) elevation, Provincia de Bocas del Toro, western Panamá".

Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) minutula — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Humid lower montane zone on both slopes of the southern Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica (1670-2100 m) and its extension into western Panama (1810-2660 m).

Comment

In the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) epimela group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336. See Lips, 1993, Herpetol. Rev., 24: 107, for Costa Rica record. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 134. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 250, provided a brief account and map. See García-París, Parra-Olea, and Wake, 2008, Herpetol. J., 18: 23-31, for systematic comments. 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: 562.

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