Pseudoeurycea smithi (Taylor, 1939)
Oedipus smithi Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 269. Holotype: EHT-HMS 3966, by original designation; now FMNH 100011 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 40. Type locality: "Cerro de San Luis, 15 mi. N.W. [Ciudad] Oaxaca, Oaxaca", Mexico.
Bolitoglossa smithi — Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 418.
Pseudoeurycea smithi — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 209.
English Names
Smith's False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 14; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34).
Smith's Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 34).
Distribution
Pine forests at high elevations of the Sierra de Juarez, Cerro San Felipe, and Sierra de Cuatro Venados, northwestern Oaxaca, Mexico, 2500-3000 m elevation.
Comment
See comment under Pseudoeurycea unguidentis. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 213-214, provided a brief account, photograph, and map, and considered it to be in the 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: 591.
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