Parvimolge townsendi (Dunn, 1922)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Parvimolge > Species: Parvimolge townsendi

Oedipus townsendi Dunn, 1922, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 35: 5. Holotype: MCZ 8017, by original designation. Type locality: "Cerro de los Estropajos near Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico".

Bolitoglossa townsendiTaylor, 1941, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 27: 107.

Parvimolge townsendiTaylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 223.

English Names

Townsend's Dwarf Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 13; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30)

Townsend's Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).

Distribution

Cloud forests of central and southern Veracruz as well as adjacent parts of Puebla, Oaxaca, and Hidalgo, eastern Mexico, 800–1950 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

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: 582. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 288, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Contreras-Calvario, Castillo Juárez, Avalos Vela, Cerón de la Luz, and Mora-Reyes, 2019, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 2: 64–70, provided additional localities in Veracruz, Mexico. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 647, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 43, briefly discussed the current location of paratypes.    

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