Pseudoeurycea nigra (Wake and Johnson, 1989)
Ixalotriton niger Wake and Johnson, 1989, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 411: 2. Holotype: MVZ 158823, by original designation. Type locality: "12 km (7.5 mi) NW Berriozábal, Chiapas, Mexico, elevation ca. 1,068 m".
Pseudoeurycea nigra — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 359.
English Names
Black Jumping Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 12; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 34).
Jumping Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).
Distribution
Known only from the montane rainforest in the immediate vicinity of the type locality, near Berriozábal in northwestern Chiapas, Mexico, 1200 m elevation.
Comment
Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodčles du Monde: 225, provided a brief account (as Ixalotriton niger) and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Ixalotriton niger) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 577.
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