Bolitoglossa muisca López-Perilla, Fernández-Roldán, Meza-Joya, and Medina-Rangel, 2023

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

Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) muisca López-Perilla, Fernández-Roldán, Meza-Joya, and Medina-Rangel, 2023, ZooKeys, 1158: 32. Holotype: IAvH-Am-17413, by original designation. Type locality: "Finca La Esmeralda, vereda Roble Hueco, Bojacá municipality, Cundinamarca department, Colombia (4.6963, -74.3624, 2630 m a.s.l.)".  

Common Names

Muisca Salamander (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from small cloud forest remnants on the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia in Bojacá, Granada, San Antonio del Tequendama, Silvania, and Soacha municipalities, Cundinamarca Department, between 2390–2700 m elevation.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Bolitoglossa adspersa group, the sister species of Bolitoglossa adspersa, and partitioned from that species in the original publicaiton on the basis of molecular and morphological markers.

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