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Bolitoglossa nympha Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010

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

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Bolitoglossa nympha Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 41. Holotype: UTA A-45328, by original designation. Type locality: "E of San Miguelito, along tributary of Río Bobos, Sierra de Caral, Municipio de Morales, Izabal, Guatemala, between 510-550 m elevation (15.357485°N, 88.719444°W)".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Highlands of eastern Guatemala southeast of the Río Motagua, possibly extending into adjacent Honduras.

Comment

The sister taxon of the Bolitoglossa rufescens group + Bolitoglossa hartwegi group, and confused with Bolitoglossa rufescens prior to its naming according to the original publication. Populations of nominal Bolitoglossa rufescens reported from Honduras may represent this species or closely-related ones (DRF).

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