Bolitoglossa flavimembris (Schmidt, 1936)

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

Oedipus flavimembris Schmidt, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 158. Holotype: FMNH 20381, by original designation. Type locality: "Volcan Tajumulco, at 7200 feet, on the trail above El Porvenir, San Marcos [Department], Guatemala".

Magnadigita flavimembrisTaylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 218.

Bolitoglossa flavimembrisWake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386.

Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) flavimembrisParra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.

English Names

Yellow-legged Mushroomtongue Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29).

Yellow-legged Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 29).

Distribution

Known only from the slopes of Volcán Atitlán, Volcán Tajumulco, and Volcán Tacaná and from the mountains along the southwestern escarpment of the Guatemalan Plateau, at elevations between 1800–2200 m (Guatemala); adjacent border area of Chiapas, Mexico, to Volcán Tacaná.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

In the Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) dunni group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa helmrichi group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 1-65. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 558. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 40–69, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 352, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 771–772, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 39–40, briefly discussed the current location of paratypes. 

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