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Oedipina complex (Dunn, 1924)

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

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Oedipus complex Dunn, 1924, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 94. Holotype: MCZ 9408, by original designation. Type locality: "Las Cascadas, near Gamboa, Canal Zone", Panama.

Oedipina complex — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 226.

Oedopinola complex — Hilton, 1946, J. Entomol. Zool., Pomona, 38: 38.

Oedipina complex — Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 16.

Oedipina (Oedopinola) complex — García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 60.

English Names

Gamboa Worm Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).

Distribution

Eastern edge of Pacific slope Costa Rica near the Panama border, through Panama and western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador.

Comment

See account by Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 10. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 283, provided a brief account and map.

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