Pseudoeurycea gigantea (Taylor, 1939)
Oedipus giganteus Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 266. Holotype: MCZ 8435, by original designation. Type locality: "Jalapa, Veracruz", Mexico.
Bolitoglossa gigantea — Taylor, 1941, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 27: 112.
Pseudoeurycea gigantea — Parra-Olea, Papenfuss, and Wake, 2001, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 20: 1.
English Names
Giant False Brook Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 33).
Distribution
Known from the pine-oak/cloud-forest interface in the La Joya-Jalapa region of Veracruz and into northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico, 1000-2000 m elevation.
Comment
In the Pseudoeurycea bellii complex, most closely related to Pseudoeurycea naucampatepetl according to Parra-Olea, Papenfuss, and Wake, 2001, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 20: 1, who removed it from the synonymy of Pseudoeurycea bellii on the basis of unreported molecular evidence. See Parra-Olea, García-París, Papenfuss, and Wake, 2005, Herpetologica, 61:145-158, for additional discussion and presentation of evidence. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 220-221, provided a brief account, photograph, 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: 588.
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