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Aquiloeurycea praecellens (Rabb, 1955)
Parvimolge praecellens Rabb, 1955, Breviora, 42: 1. Holotype: MCZ 24701, by original designation. Type locality: "Hacienda El Potrero, near the city of Cordoba, Vera Cruz, Mexico".
Pseudoeurycea praecellens — Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 12.
Pseudoeurycea (Isthmura) praecellens — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161.
Aquiloeurycea praecellens — Rovito, Parra-Olea, Recuero, and Wake, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 175: 185. Provisional generic assignment.
English Names
Admirable False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 14; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 34).
Distribution
Known only from the type (Hacienda El Potrero, near Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico, in tropical wet forest.
Comment
Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 61, suggested that the juvenile type of Parvimolge praecellens might actually be a Pseudoeurycea; subsequently transferred to Pseudoeurycea by Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 12. Placed in the Pseudoeurycea praecellens group by Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 222. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 284, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 590, who implied that this species may be extinct.
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