Pseudoeurycea conanti Bogert, 1967

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Pseudoeurycea > Species: Pseudoeurycea conanti

Pseudoeurycea conanti Bogert, 1967, Am. Mus. Novit., 2314: 21. Holotype: AMNH 13811, by original designation. Type locality: "'found under rubbish in a cafetal' at Pluma Hidalgo, Distrito de Pochutla, Oaxaca", Mexico.

Pseudoeurycea (Pseudoeurycea) conantiDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161.

English Names

Conant's False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 13; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33).

Conant's Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 33).

Distribution

Montane west-central to southern Oaxaca, 900 to more than 2000 m elevation, Mexico. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

 In the Pseudoeurycea cephalica group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 61. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 268, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 602–603, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and specific localities in the distribution (including a polygon map). 

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