Pseudoeurycea ruficauda Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken, and Wake, 2004
Pseudoeurycea ruficauda Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken, and Wake, 2004, J. Nat. Hist., 38: 2122. Holotype: IBUNAM 13806, by original designation. Type locality: "ca 1 km NW of Puerto Soledad, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, elevation 2290 m, 18° 10.450′ N, 97° 00.197′ W", Mexico.
English Names
Orange-tailed Agile Salamander (original publication; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 34).
Distribution
Known only from the western portion of the Sierra Mazateca (in the Sierra Madre Oriental, north of the Rio Grande), Oaxaca, Mexico, in moist pine-oak forest at high elevation.
Comment
The sister taxon of Pseudoeurycea unguidentis according to the original publication. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 209, provided a brief account and map.
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