Pseudoeurycea goebeli (Schmidt, 1936)
Oedipus goebeli Schmidt, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 163. Holotype: FMNH 21064, by original designation. Type locality: "Volcan Tajumulco, at 8,000 feet altitude, on the trail above El Porvenir, San Marcos [Department], Guatemala".
Oedipus goebeli — Stuart, 1943, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 56: 27.
Pseudoeurycea goebeli — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 209.
English Names
Goebel's False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 14; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 33).
Distribution
Pine-oak and upper cloud forest in the vicinity of Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico, to the high mountains of western Guatemala (east to Volcán Ajua).
Comment
Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 216, provided a brief account, photograph, and map, and considered it to be in the Pseudoeurycea gadovii 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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