Bolitoglossa veracrucis Taylor, 1951
Bolitoglossa veracrucis Taylor, 1951, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 189. Holotype: KU 26941, by original designation. Type locality: "at a point 35 km SE of Jesús Carranza (Santa Lucretia), elev. approx. 350 feet, Veracruz, Mexico".
Bolitoglossa (Mayamandra) veracrucis — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 337.
English Names
Veracruz Mushroomtongue Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 11; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).
Veracruz Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Veracruz, Mexico).
Comment
Formerly in the Bolitoglossa veracrucis group which now constitutes the subgenus Mayamandra according to Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 274-275, provided a brief account and map.
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