Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Spelerpes simus Vaillant, 1911, Miss. Serv. Geogr. Mes. Arc. Merid. Equat. Am. Sud: 58. Holotype: MNHNP 1906.284, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 10, and Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 68. Type locality: "Equateur".

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

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

English Names

Northwestern Mushroomtongue Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).

Distribution

Northwestern lowlands of Ecuador, below 1000 m elevation.

Comment

In the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) adspersa group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa sima group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 1-65. Removed from the synonymy of Bolitoglossa altamazonica, by Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 20; Wake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386, where it had been placed by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 396. Crump, 1978 "1977", Herpetologica, 33: 415-426, discussed diagnostic features and habitat preference. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 261-262, 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: 565.

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