Dendrotriton Wake and Elias, 1983

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Dendrotriton
8 species

Dendrotriton Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 11. Type species: Oedipus bromeliacia Schmidt, 1936, by original designation.

English Names

Bromeliad Salamanders (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 31).

Distribution

Southwestern Chiapas, Mexico, to Honduras.

Comment

Reviewed (as the Chiropterotriton bromeliacia group) by Lynch and Wake, 1975, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 265: 1–45. Phylogenetic relationships in the genus presented by Collins-Rainboth and Buth, 1990, Copeia, 1990: 955–960, were (xolocalcae (rabbi (cuchumatanus (bromeliacia, megarhinus)))). Wilkinson, 1997, Herpetol. J., 7: 55–65, disputed these results as weakly supported. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Rovito, Wake, Papenfuss, Parra-Olea, Muñoz-Alonso, and Vásquez-Almazán, 2012, J. Biogeograph., 39: 1251–1265, reported on molecular phylogenetics and biogeography. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 73–75, provided a brief summary of natural history, a key to the species of Central America, and range maps and photographs of the species. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 362–364, provided brief accounts for the species, photographs, and range map. 

Contained taxa (8 sp.):

Dendrotriton bromeliacius (Schmidt, 1936)
Dendrotriton chujorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010
Dendrotriton cuchumatanus (Lynch and Wake, 1975)
Dendrotriton kekchiorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010
Dendrotriton megarhinus (Rabb, 1960)
Dendrotriton rabbi (Lynch and Wake, 1975)
Dendrotriton sanctibarbarus (McCranie and Wilson, 1997)
Dendrotriton xolocalcae (Taylor, 1941)

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