Dendrotriton Wake and Elias, 1983
Dendrotriton Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 11. Type species: Oedipus bromeliacia Schmidt, 1936, by original designation.
English Names
Bromeliad Salamanders (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 31).
Distribution
Southwestern Chiapas, Mexico, to Honduras.
Comment
Reviewed (as the Chiropterotriton bromeliacia group) by Lynch and Wake, 1975, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 265: 1-45. Phylogenetic relationships in the genus presented by Collins-Rainboth and Buth, 1990, Copeia, 1990: 955-960, were (xolocalcae (rabbi (cuchumatanus (bromeliacia, megarhinus)))). Wilkinson, 1997, Herpetol. J., 7: 55-65, disputed these results as weakly supported. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Rovito, Wake, Papenfuss, Parra-Olea, Muñoz-Alonso, and Vásquez-Almazán, 2012, J. Biogeograph., 39: 1251-1265, reported on molecular phylogenetics and biogeography.
Contained taxa
- Dendrotriton bromeliacius (Schmidt, 1936)
- Dendrotriton chujorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010
- Dendrotriton cuchumatanus (Lynch and Wake, 1975)
- Dendrotriton kekchiorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010
- Dendrotriton megarhinus (Rabb, 1960)
- Dendrotriton rabbi (Lynch and Wake, 1975)
- Dendrotriton sanctibarbarus (McCranie and Wilson, 1997)
- Dendrotriton xolocalcae (Taylor, 1941)
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