Oedipina ignea Stuart, 1952
Oedipina ignea Stuart, 1952, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 65: 1. Holotype: USNM 127959, by original designation. Type locality: "along the Río Las Brisas, just south of Yepocapa, Department of Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Elevation about 1450 m."
Oedipina (Oedipina) ignea — García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 60.
English Names
Chimaltenango Worm Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).
Distribution
Southwestern Guatemala and extreme southwestern Honduras, 1000-2000 m elevation.
Comment
In the Oedipina uniformis group, Oedipina uniformis subgroup. Removed from the synonymy of Oedipina taylori by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 45, where it had been placed by Brame, 1960, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 59: 159. See McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 156-157, for account. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 289, provided a brief account and map. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 36, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras.
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