Chiropterotriton arboreus (Taylor, 1941)
Bolitoglossa arborea Taylor, 1941, Herpetologica, 2: 62. Holotype: EHT-HMS 16743, by original designation; now FMNH 100022 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 36. Type locality: "near Tianguistengo, Hidalgo", Mexico.
Chiropterotriton arborea — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 216.
Chiropterotriton arboreus — Brame, 1967, Herpeton, California, 2: 19.
English Names
Arboreal Splayfoot Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 11; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).
Arboreal Flat-footed Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30).
Distribution
Vicinity of the type locality (Tianguistengo, Hidalgo) and Mesa de Necaxa, Puebla, Mexico.
Comment
See brief account by Rabb, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 587: 18. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 226, provided a brief account, photograph, and map.
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