Gymnopis syntrema (Cope, 1866)
Siphonops syntremus Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 129. Type(s): Not known to exist although presumably originally in ANSP, PM, or USNM; lost prior to 1885. Type locality: "the neighboring region of Honduras"; the northern coast of Honduras, according to Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 597.
Siphonops oligozonus Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 91. Holotype: USNM 25187, according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 4. Type locality: "uncertain"; possibly Chiapas or Tehuantepec, Mexico, according to Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 523. Synonymy of Nussbaum, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 921-928. Formerly considered a synonym of Gymnopis multiplicatus by Savage and Wake, 1972, Copeia, 1972: 680-695.
Gymnopis oligozona — Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 939. Dunn, 1928, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 76.
Typhlonectes syntremus — Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 942.
Dermophis syntremus — Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 171.
Gymnophis oligozona — Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 171.
Minascaecilia sartoria Wake and Campbell, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 858. Holotype: KU 189566, by original designation. Type locality: "Aldea Vista Hermosa, Municipio Los Amates, Departamento de Izabal, Guatemala, 650 m". Synonymy by Nussbaum, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 921-928.
Gymnopis syntremus — Nussbaum, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 921-928. Incorrect gender.
Gymnopis syntrema — Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 33.
English Names
West Forest Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Mountain Caecilian (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 33; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 50).
Distribution
Low and moderate elevations in central and eastern Guatemala (Sierra de las Minas), Belize (Maya Mountains); expected in adjacent northwestern Honduras .
Comment
Taylor erected the genus Copeotyphlinus for a species based on a long-lost holotype for which only the original description remains. Savage and Wake, 1972, Copeia, 1972: 691; Nussbaum, 1979, J. Herpetol., 13: 121-123; Wake and Campbell, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 857-863, and Nussbaum, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 921-928, reviewed this problem. See account (as Minascaecilia sartoria) by Wake, 1988, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 412: 1. See also accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 36-37; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 33-34; and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 50.
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