Pseudoeurycea natsii Aguilar-Herrera, Flores-Martínez, Seba-Chacha, and Jiménez- Arcos, 2026

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Pseudoeurycea > Species: Pseudoeurycea natsii

Pseudoeurycea natsii Aguilar-Herrera, Flores-Martínez, Seba-Chacha, and Jiménez- Arcos in Aguilar-Herrera, Sanabria-Urbán, Flores-Martínez, Gómez-Tapia, Seba-Chacha, Vázquez-Reyes, Rivera-Ortíz, Ramírez-Bastida, Cortés-Ortiz, Calzada-Arciniega, Avila-Ortega, Víquez-Vega, Hernández-Ordóñez, Blair, and Jiménez-Arcos, 2026, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 76: 289. Holotype: IBH 37026, by original designation. Type locality: "1.16 km of San Martín Caballero, San José Tenango municipality, Oaxaca, Mexico (18°05.87'N, 96°38.03'W, 1611 m elevation, WGS84 datum)". ZooBank Publication registration: CC64687A-78D7-4930-9F42-4AC168A8D217 

Common Names

Mazatec Tree Salamander (original publication). 

Salamandra Arborícola Mazateca (Spanish: original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (near San Martín Caballero, San José Tenango municipality, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1590 m elevation) in the cloud forest of Cerro Rabon, located in the eastern portion of Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Pseudoeurycea juarezi group according to the original publication, where comparative morphology and molecular markers (mtDNA) were detailed. 

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