Oedipina taylori Stuart, 1952
Oedipina taylori Stuart, 1952, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 65: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 102281, by original designation. Type locality: "4 kilometers east of Hacienda La Trinidad (23 air line kilometers southeast of Chiquimulilla), Department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. Elevation, about 100 meters".
Oedipina (Oedipina) taylori — García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 60.
English Names
Taylor's Worm Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).
Distribution
Pacific versant of southeastern Guatemala to central El Salvador and adjacent southern Honduras.
Comment
See McCranie, Cruz-Díaz, and Rivera, 2001, Herpetol. Rev., 32: 54, for Honduran record and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 159-160, for account. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 290, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 36, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See comments by Brodie, Acevedo, and Campbell, 2012, J. Herpetol., 46: 233.
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