Pseudoeurycea bellii (Gray, 1850)
Spelerpes bellii Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 46. Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.6.23 (formerly 1.111.9.9.a), according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 289. Type locality: "Mexico"; restricted to "Río Frío, 2 miles east of", Puebla, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 341.
Geotriton bellii — Cope, 1879, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 18: 263.
Oedipus bellii — Dunn, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 62: 471.
Bolitoglossa bellii — Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 77.
Pseudoeurycea bellii — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 209.
Pseudoeurycea belli belli — Lowe, Jones, and Wright, 1968, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 140: 4, 6.
Pseudoeurycea belli sierraoccidentalis Lowe, Jones, and Wright, 1968, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 140: 1. Holotype: UAZ 12138, by original designation. Type locality: "ca. 11 mi (rd.) E Santa Ana, on old road to Yécora (ca. 0.5 mi. W. Rancho El Puerto), Sonora, Mexico". The locality is estimated to be 21 ± 1 mi west-southwest of Yécora, by old road to Nuri. [This road, connecting Bermudez, Sonora, with Yecora, Sonora, is now long abandoned and was nearly impassable in 1975 when it was little more than a walking path.—DRF.]
English Names
Bell's False Brook Salamander (Pseudoeurycea bellii: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 13; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33).
Bell's Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 32).
Bell's False Brook Salamander (Pseudoeurycea bellii bellii: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 13).
Bell's Salamander (Pseudoeurycea bellii bellii: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 32).
Sonoran False Brook Salamander (Pseudoeurycea bellii sierraoccidentalis: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 13).
Pine-oak Salamander (Pseudoeurycea bellii sierraoccidentalis: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 32).
Distribution
High elevation pine and pine-oak forest of southern Tamaulipas and southern Nayarit to Tlaxcala and the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico; isolated population in far east-central Sonora and adjacent Madrean Chihuahua, Mexico. Not collected, but expected in the mountains of Durango, 750-3300 m elevation.
Comment
Uribe-Peña, Ramírez-Bautista, and Casas-Andreu, 1999, Cuad. Inst. Biol., UNAM, 32: 24-25, provided an account and described the distribution. Parra-Olea, García-París, Papenfuss, and Wake, 2005, Herpetologica, 61: 145-158, discussed the systematics of the complex and redefined the species as composed of two widely allopatric and diagnosable subspecies: Pseudoeurycea bellii bellii (Mexican Tableland) and Pseudoeurycea bellii sierraoccidentalis of eastern Sonora and adjacent Madrean Chihuahua. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 219-220, provided brief accounts by subspecies, photographs, and map, and considered it to be in the Pseudoeurycea bellii complex of the Pseudoeurycea bellii group. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 586. Van Devender, Lowe, and Holm, 1989, Herpetol. Rev., 20: 75, provided a locality in Madrean Chihuahua.
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