American Museum of Natural History

Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

  • ASW home
  • herpetology site

Cryptotriton García-París and Wake, 2000

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Cryptotriton

[link to this account]

Cryptotriton García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 58. Type species: Oedipus nasalis Dunn, 1924, by original designation.

English Names

Hidden Salamanders (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30).

Distribution

Mountains of northern Oaxaca, Mexico, through northern Chiapas, Mexico, the highlands of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, and the Sierra de las Minas, eastern Guatemala, to the Cordillera del Merendón and associated uplands in extreme northeastern Honduras.

Comment

See García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70, for discussion of systematic history of this group; all species were formerly included in Nototriton. See García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70, for discussion of phylogenetics. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 229, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.

Contained taxa

  • Cryptotriton alvarezdeltoroi (Papenfuss and Wake, 1987)
  • Cryptotriton monzoni (Campbell and Smith, 1998)
  • Cryptotriton nasalis (Dunn, 1924)
  • Cryptotriton sierraminensis Vásquez-Almazán, Rovito, Good, and Wake, 2009
  • Cryptotriton veraepacis (Lynch and Wake, 1978)
  • Cryptotriton wakei (Campbell and Smith, 1998)

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
  • How to cite
  • How to use
  • Higher taxonomy and progress
  • Structure of records
  • History of the project
  • Contributors, 1985 edition
  • Contributors, online edition
  • Versions
  • Museum abbreviations
  • Useful links
  • Copyright and terms of use

Copyright © 1998-2013, Darrel Frost and The American Museum of Natural History. All Rights Reserved.

Send inquiries to Darrel Frost <frost at amnh org>.