Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Spelerpes (Oedipus) parvipes Peters, 1879, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 778. Holotype: ZMB 9518, according to Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 9. Type locality: "Laceres [= Cáceres] am Cauca, einem Nebenfluss des Magdalenstroms in der Provinz Antioquia (Neu Granada)", Colombia.

Oedipus parvipes — Dunn, 1924, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 12: 99.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.

Comment

See account by Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 9. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 149, excluded previous records from Panama and Costa Rica as applying to other species. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 285-286, provided a brief account and map. Mueses-Cisneros and Moreno-Quintero, 2012, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 7: 39-54, provided the first record for Nariño, southwestern Colombia.

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