Pseudoeurycea obesa Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken, and Wake, 2005
Pseudoeurycea obesa Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken, and Wake, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 467. Holotype: IBUNAM 14195, by original designation. Type locality: "Plan de Guadalupe, Oaxaca, Mexico (18° 08.386′ N, 96° 57.397′ W), 2150 m elevation".
English Names
Ridge-tailed Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 34).
Distribution
Known only from deforested remnant oak-cloud forest in the mountain pass of Plan de Guadalupe and its immediate surroundings, along the road from Teotitlán del Valle to Huautla, Oaxaca, 2150-2155 m elevation.
Comment
In the Pseudoeurycea leprosa group, according to the original publication. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 207-208, provided a brief account, photograph, and map, who considered this species to be in the Pseudoeurycea leprosa group.
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