Bolitoglossa orestes Brame and Wake, 1962
Bolitoglossa orestes Brame and Wake, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 171. Holotype: BMNH 1905.5.31.103, by original designation. Type locality: "Culata, 9,810 feet (3,000 meters), Cordillera de Mérida, Estado de Mérida, Venezuela".
Bolitoglossa spongai Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes-Ramos, 1999, Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 19: 11. Holotype: MBUCV 6570, by original designation. Type locality: "Carretera Mérida la Azulita, frente al Hato la Carbonera, Fila la Cuchilla, Municipio Campo Elías, La Carbonera, Estado Mérida, Venezuela, 2200 msnm. 8° 38′ 02″ N, 71° 22′ 25″ W". Synonymy by Fermin, García-Gutiérrez, Escalona, Mora, and Díaz, 2012, Zootaxa, 3356: 47-56.
Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) orestes — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.
Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) spongai — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.
English Names
Culata Mushroomtongue Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).
Distribution
Cloud forests inMérida state, Venezuela, 2000-3500 m elevation.
Comment
In the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) adspersa group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336. See account by Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 24. See also additional comparisons by Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes-Ramos, 1999, Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 19: 9-19. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 256, provided brief accounts (as Bolitoglossa orestes and Bolitoglossa spongai) and maps. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 563 (as Bolitoglossa orestes) and 566 (as Bolitoglossa spongai). See account (as Bolitoglossa spongai) by Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes-Ramos, 2004, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 781: 1-2. Barrio-Amoros, García, and Fuentes-Ramos, 2010, Salamandra, 46: 108-113, reported on natural history and intraspecific variation, as Bolitoglossa spongai.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
