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Nototriton major Good and Wake, 1993

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

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Nototriton major Good and Wake, 1993, Herpetol. Monogr., 7: 137. Holotype: UCR 6756, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Platanillo, approximately 6 km east of Moravia de Chirripó, Prov. Cartago, Costa Rica, . . . . Elevation ca. 1200 m".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality on the north-facing premontane slope of the Cordillera de Talamanca, near Moravia de Chirripó, Cartago Province, eastern Costa Rica, 1100-1200 m elevation.

Comment

See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 142-143. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodčles du Monde: 276, provided a brief account and map.

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