Pseudoeurycea rex (Dunn, 1921)
Oedipus rex Dunn, 1921, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34: 143. Holotype: FMNH 1814, by original designation. Type locality: "Sierra Santa Elena (near Tecpan), Guatemala (alt. 9500 feet)".
Pseudoeurycea rex — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 209.
English Names
Royal False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 14; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33).
Distribution
High elevations of western Guatemala; expected in adjacent Chiapas, Mexico.
Comment
See Elias, 1984, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 348: 13. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 216, provided a brief account, photograph, and map, and considered it to be in the Pseudoeurycea gadovii group.
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