Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Pseudoeurycea parva Lynch and Wake, 1989, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 411: 15. Holotype: MVZ 196101, by original designation. Type locality: "in an arborel bromeliad on a ridge SE Cerro Baul, 21 km W Rizo de Oro, Chaiaps [sic—error for Oaxaca], Mexico (ca. 1,600 m). The type-locality is just within the eastern border of the state of Oaxaca", Mexico.

Ixalotriton parvus — Parra-Olea, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 22: 234.

Pseudoeurycea parva — 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.

Ixalotriton parva — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 225. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Dwarf 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: 34).

Distribution

Known only from the Cerro Baul, above 1600 m elevation, Oaxaca, Mexico, on the east side of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Comment

Reviewed by Lynch and Wake, 1999, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 687: 1-2 (as Pseudoeurycea parva). Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 225, provided a brief account (as Ixalotriton parva) and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Ixalotriton parva) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 577, who suggested that this taxon may be extinct.

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