Bolitoglossa palmata (Werner, 1897)

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

Spelerpes palmatus Werner, 1897, Zool. Anz., 20: 266. Syntypes: NHMW, ZIUW, and ZSM; ZIUW q43 (now NHMW 22862) designated lectotype by Brame and Wake, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 173; this specimen renumbered as NHMW 22862, according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 17, and  Gemel, Gassner, and Schweiger, 2019, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, Ser. B, 121: 44. Type locality: "Ecuador"; restricted to "'Cordillera', Ecuador" by Brame and Wake, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 174.

Bolitoglossa palmataBrame and Wake, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 173.

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

Common Names

Amazon Mushroomtongue Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).

Guacamayo Mushroomtongue Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 736).

Distribution

Amazonian slopes of the western Andes, from Caquetá, Colombia, through Ecuador to near the Peruvian border, 1600–2200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) adspersa group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336. See account by Brame and Wake, 1963, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 69: 25. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 258, provided a brief account and map. 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: 563. Acosta-Galvis and Gutiérrez-Lamus, 2012, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 52: 212, provided the first records from Caquetá, Colombia. Elmer, Bonett, Wake, and Lougheed, 2013, BMC Evol. Biol., 13(59): 1–16, discussed relationships, biogeography, and cryptic diversity. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 340, discussed the results of Elmer et al. (2013), the unnamed species, and provided a brief account, photography, and range map. For comparison of morphometric and dentition characters of Bolitoglossa altamazonica, Bolitoglossa peruviana, Bolitoglossa caldwellae, Bolitoglossa paraensis, Bolitoglossa palmata, and Bolitoglossa awafun, see  Cusi Martínez, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Brcko, Wake, and von May, 2020, Zootaxa, 4834: Tables 6–7. Camper, Torres-Carvajal, Ron, Nilsson, Arteaga-Navarro, Knowles, and Arbogast, 2021, Check List, 17: 729–751, provided a record from Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary, Napo Province, Ecuador. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 736–737, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).  

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