Oedipina altura Brame, 1968
Oedipina altura Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 28. Holotype: LACM 1739, by original designation. Type locality: "200 yards north of El Empalme, on the Pan American Highway south of Cartago in the northern end of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Canton de Dota [in error, Cantón de El Guarco], Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica, at 2286 m (7500 ft) elevation". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 90, commented on the type locality.
Oedipina (Oedipina) altura — García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 60.
English Names
Cartago Worm Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).
Distribution
Humid lower montane area of the extreme northern Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica, 2286-2320 m elevation.
Comment
See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 151. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 286, provided a brief account and map. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 579.
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