Nototriton Wake and Elias, 1983
Nototriton Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 11. Type species: Spelerpes picadoi Stejneger, 1911, by original designation.
English Names
Moss Salamanders (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).
Distribution
Central Costa Rica through north-central to western Honduras to eastern Guatemala.
Comment
Formerly part of the Chiropterotriton picadoi group of the Chiropterotriton beta section of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 1-65. Good and Wake, 1993, Herpetol. Monogr., 7: 138-159, provided a discussion for the Costa Rican members of this genus and a discussion of relationships (as including Cryptotriton). Papenfuss and Wake, 1987, Acta Zool. Mexicana, N.S.,, 21: 1-16, and Campbell and Smith, 1998, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 6: 1-8, discussed species groups and morphological adaptations (as including Cryptotriton). See García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70, for discussion of phylogenetics. See comments under the Cryptotriton account. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 139-145, provided accounts and a key to the species of Costa Rica and recognized three species groups: Nototriton barbouri group (Nototriton barbouri, Nototriton brodiei, Nototriton lignocola, Nototriton limnospectator, Nototriton stuarti); Nototriton picadoi group (Nototriton abscondens, Nototriton gamezi, Nototriton guanacaste, Nototriton major, Nototriton picadoi); Nototriton richardi group (Nototriton richardi, Nototriton tapanti). Wiens, Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2007, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 274: 918-928, provided a phylogenetic placement of Nototriton as well as a relative phylogeny for six of its species. Townsend, Butler, Wilson, and Austin, 2010, Zootaxa, 2434: 1-16, discussed molecular phylogenetics of the group with particular reference to the placement of Nototriton tomamorum. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Townsend, Medina-Flores, Murillo, and Austin, 2011, Syst. Biodiversity, 9: : 275-287, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of the Honduran species.
Contained taxa
- Nototriton abscondens (Taylor, 1948)
- Nototriton barbouri (Schmidt, 1936)
- Nototriton brodiei Campbell and Smith, 1998
- Nototriton gamezi García-París and Wake, 2000
- Nototriton guanacaste Good and Wake, 1993
- Nototriton lignicola McCranie and Wilson, 1997
- Nototriton limnospectator McCranie, Wilson, and Polisar, 1998
- Nototriton major Good and Wake, 1993
- Nototriton matama Boza-Oviedo, Rovito, Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Artavia, Bolaños, and Wake, 2012
- Nototriton picadoi (Stejneger, 1911)
- Nototriton picucha Townsend, Medina-Flores, Murillo, and Austin, 2011
- Nototriton richardi (Taylor, 1949)
- Nototriton saslaya Köhler, 2002
- Nototriton stuarti Wake and Campbell, 2000
- Nototriton tapanti Good and Wake, 1993
- Nototriton tomamorum Townsend, Butler, Wilson, and Austin, 2010
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