Pseudoeurycea robertsi (Taylor, 1939)
Oedipus robertsi Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 287. Holotype: EHT-HMS 12503, by original designation; now FMNH 100002 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 39. Type locality: "Nevada [sic] de Toluca, [México,] elevation between 10,000 and 11,000 feet", Mexico.
Pseudoeurycea robertsi — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 209. Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 28.
Bolitoglossa robertsi — Taylor and Smith, 1945, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 95: 537.
English Names
Roberts' 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
Pine-fir forest on the Nevado de Toluca in southwestern México (state), Mexico, 3200-3500 m elevation.
Comment
In the Pseudoeurycea leprosa group of Lara-Góngora, 2003, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 39: 21-52. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 211, provided a brief account, photograph, and map and considered it in his 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: 590.
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