Pseudoeurycea mixteca Canseco-Márquez and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2005

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

Pseudoeurycea mixteca Canseco-Márquez and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2005, J. Herpetol., 39: 182. Holotype: MZFC 15293, by original designation. Type locality: 3 km south of San Pedro Jocotipac, Oaxaca, Mexico (N 17° 44.075′, W 97° 05.320′), 2420 m . . . . in oak forest".

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

English Names

Mixteca False Brook Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 614).

Distribution

Mixteca Alta region of northwestern Oaxaca in pine-oak forest; isolated relict cave locality in the arid Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Most similar to Pseudoeurycea altamontana according to the original publication, so, by implication in the Pseudoeurycea leprosa group. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 274–275, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Windfield-Pérez, Parra-Olea, and Hernández-Zárate, 2007, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 78: 493-495, provided a record from a cave locality in the arid Tehuacan Valley of Puebla, Mexico. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 614–615, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

External links:

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.