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Chiropterotriton totonacus Parra-Olea, García-Castillo, Rovito, Maisano, Hanken, and Wake, 2020
Spelerpes laticeps Brocchi, 1883, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 3): 110, pl. 18, fig. 1. Syntypes: MNHNP 4750 (4 specimens) (= Pseudoeurycea leprosa—D.B. Wake in Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 36) and MNHNP A.843 (= Chiropterotriton chiropterus—D.B Wake in Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 36) Type locality: "Vera Cruz", Mexico; restricted to "Cruz Blanca", Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 347. See discussion by Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 35–36. Provisionally considered a likely senior synonym of Chiropterotriton totonacus by Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 801–802, but requiring confirmation.
Chiropterotriton totonacus Parra-Olea, García-Castillo, Rovito, Maisano, Hanken, and Wake, 2020, PeerJ, 8(e8800): 29. Holotype: MVZ 163945, by original designation. Type locality: "6 km W Las Vigas de Ramírez, Veracruz, Mexico, 2,420 masl, 19.635 N, 97.159166° W (EPE = max. error distance 5.71 km)". Zoobank publication registration: 9B4B9DFF-E12B-430D-A541-BA0EBB9B90E6
Common Names
Cruz Blanca Salamander (original publication).
Cruz Blanca Splayfoot Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 805).
Distribution
Along the ridge between Cruz Blanca and Las Vigas at elevations between 2200 and 2450 m elevation, and from La Joya at 2,000 m elevation, Veracruz, Mexico.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Mexico
Endemic: Mexico
Comment
Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 805–806, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).
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