Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Chiropterotriton prisca Rabb, 1956, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 11. Holotype: FMNH 95999, by original designation. Type locality: "at an elevation of 8,000 feet on Cerro Potosí, near Ojo de Agua, about eleven miles west-northwest of Galeana, Nuevo León, Mexico".

Chiropterotriton priscus — Rabb, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 587: 2.

English Names

Primeval Splayfoot Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 11; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).

Primeval Flat-footed Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30).

Distribution

Cerro Potosi near Ojo de Agua to Galeana, Nuevo León, Mexico, above 3000 m elevation.

Comment

Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 229, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 638. Liner, Johnson, and Chaney, 1976, Herpetol. Rev., 7: 177, provided specific localities for this species.

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