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)". LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5DF89BF2-74FB-441D-943C-2E2908B52CF8

English Names

Ecuadorian Worm Salamander (original publication). 

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. 

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