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Pseudoeurycea brunnata Bumzahem and Smith, 1955
Pseudoeurycea brunnata Bumzahem and Smith, 1955, Herpetologica, 11: 73. Holotype: UIMNH 33708, by original designation. Type locality: "Región de Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico".
Pseudoeurycea (Pseudoeurycea) brunnata — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161.
Common Names
Brown False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 13; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 32).
Distribution
Pine-oak forest and cloud forest from Volcán Tacaná in extreme eastern Chiapas, Mexico, discontinuously east as far as Volcán Chicabal, Department of San Marcos, southwestern Guatemala, 2400–2800 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Guatemala, Mexico
Comment
In the Pseudoeurycea cephalica group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 61. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 586. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 91–92, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 281, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 628–629, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 54, briefly discussed current location of paratypes.
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