Nototriton tapanti Good and Wake, 1993

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Nototriton > Species: Nototriton tapanti

Nototriton tapanti Good and Wake, 1993, Herpetol. Monogr., 7: 134. Holotype: MVZ 203746, by original designation. Type locality: "Rio Quirí (elevation ca. 1300 m), 0.3 km northeast of the junction of the Tapantí Road and the Tausito Road, near Tapantí, Prov. Cartago, Costa Rica".

Nototriton (Nototriton) tapanti — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161.

Nototriton (Taylorotriton) tapanti —  Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 469. 

English Names

Tapanti Moss Salamander (Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 475).

Distribution

Within the northern Cordillera de Talamanca and extreme eastern Cordillera Volcanica Central at elevations from roughly 1300–2250 m, Cartago, Costa Rica.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica

Endemic: Costa Rica

Comment

See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 145. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 76–80, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 367, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 451–496, provided a dot map of the species as part of their revision of the genus in Costa Rica. Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 451–496, provided an account, molecular and morphological markers, and a dot map of the species, as part of their revision of the genus in Costa Rica. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 881–882, provided an account summarizing morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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