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Pseudoeurycea amuzga Pérez-Ramos and Saldaña de la Riva, 2003

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

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Pseudoeurycea amuzga Pérez-Ramos and Saldaña de la Riva, 2003, Acta Zool. Mexicana, N.S.,, 89: 57. Holotype: MZFC 10130, by original designation. Type locality: "en bosque mixto de pino y encino situado a 1 km al noroeste del Cerro Pico del Aguila en la Sierra de Malinaltepec, aproximadamente a los 16° 57′ y 98° 19′ W, y 1740 m de elevación", Guerrero, Mexico.

English Names

Sierra de Malinaltepec Salamander (; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 32).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Sierra de Malinaltepec, Guerrero, Mexico.

Comment

Named invalidly by Pérez-Ramos and Saldaña de la Riva, 2000, Rev. Digital Universitaria, Mexico, 1: 1 (electronic journal). According to the original publication this species was noted previously as Pseudoeurycea sp. by Adler, 1996, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 177: 20. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 215, provided a brief account and map, and considered it to be in the Pseudoeurycea gadovii group.

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