Pseudoeurycea melanomolga (Taylor, 1941)
Bolitoglossa melanomolga Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 81. Holotype: EHT-HMS 24626, by original designation; now UIMNH 25041 according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 297. Type locality: "about 20 km. north of San Antonio Limón (Totalco), Veracruz", Mexico.
Pseudoeurycea melanomolga — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 209.
English Names
Black False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 14; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33).
Black Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 33).
Distribution
Upper slopes (pine forest to bunch grass habitats) of the Cofre de Perote and nearby mountains in Veracruz, to Teziutlán, Puebla, Mexico, 2400-4000 m elevation.
Comment
Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 215, 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: 589.
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