Pseudoeurycea scandens Walker, 1955
Pseudoeurycea scandens Walker, 1955, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 567: 1. Holotype: UMMZ 100639, by original designation. Type locality: "Cave at Rancho del Cielo, on the forested slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental in southern Tamaulipas, about five miles northwest of Gomez Farías, Mexico, elevation about 3500 feet".
English Names
Tamaulipan 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
Southwestern Tamaulipas in the caves of the Biósfera El Cielo, Mexico, 1050-1800 m elevation; also reported 64.4 km to the southwest of the type locality at 27.7 km northeast of Ciudad del Maiz in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Comment
Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 219, provided a brief account, photograph, and map, and considered it to be in the Pseudoeurycea bellii group. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 591. Johnson, Liner, and Chaney, 1978, Herpetol. Rev., 9: 21, provided the record for San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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