Bolitoglossa nympha Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010

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

Bolitoglossa nympha Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 41. Holotype: UTA A-45328, by original designation. Type locality: "E of San Miguelito, along tributary of Río Bobos, Sierra de Caral, Municipio de Morales, Izabal, Guatemala, between 510–550 m elevation (15.357485° N, 88.719444° W)".

English Names

San Miguelito Banana Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 672).

Distribution

Highlands of Guatemala from Huehuetenango and Baja Verapaz to Copán, Cortés, and Yoro, Honduras, 275 to 1165 m elevation; possibly to be found in northern El Salvador. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala, Honduras

Likely/Controversially Present: El Salvador

Comment

The sister taxon of the Bolitoglossa rufescens group + Bolitoglossa hartwegi group, and confused with Bolitoglossa rufescens prior to its naming according to the original publication. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 40–69, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. Rovito, Parra-Olea, Vázquez-Almazán, Luna-Reyes, and Wake, 2012, BMC Evol. Biol., 12(255): 1–16, reported on phylogeography, providing evidence that the nominal species is composed of several lineages. Hess, Itgen, Firneno, Nifong, and Townsend, 2017, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 55: 150–155, detailed the geographic range and relationship to Bolitoglossa rufescensRaffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 315–316, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 666–670, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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