Bolitoglossa omniumsanctorum (Stuart, 1952)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Bolitoglossa > Species: Bolitoglossa omniumsanctorum

Magnadigita omniumsanctorum Stuart, 1952, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 65: 4. Holotype: UMMZ 102285, by original designation. Type locality: "Todos Santos, Department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Elevation about 2500 meters".

Bolitoglossa omniumsanctorumWake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386; Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 4.

English Names

Todos Santos Mushroomtongue Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 765).

Distribution

Extreme western portion of the Sierra de Chuacús, as well as the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes and Montañas del Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala

Endemic: Guatemala

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Bolitoglossa morio by Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 4, where it had been placed by Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 10. In the Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) morio group of Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 19. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 350, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 765–766, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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