Oedipina ecuatoriana Reyes-Puig, Wake, Kotharambath, Streicher, Koch, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ron, 2020

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Oedipina > Species: Oedipina ecuatoriana

Oedipina (Oedopinola) ecuatoriana Reyes-Puig, Wake, Kotharambath, Streicher, Koch, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ron, 2020, PeerJ, 8(e9934): 17. Holotype: BMNH 1901.3.29.115, by original designation. Type locality: "Paramba (Hacienda Parambas?, . . .), provincia de Imbabura, Ecuador (approximate coordinates 0.816667, –78.35000, 1,067 m)". Zoobank publication registration: 1B4C2057-0FFC-4DAE-9267-240AD991EC7C

Common Names

Ecuadorian Worm Salamander (original publication; Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxxi). 

Salamandra Gusano Ecuatoriana (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxxi).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality, presumed by the authors to be Hacienda Paramba, in the western foothills of the province of Imbabura, Ecuador, 1067 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

 Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 856, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 366–346, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, morphology, systematics, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.

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