Pseudoeurycea teotepec Adler, 1996

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

Pseudoeurycea teotepec Adler, 1996, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 177: 9. Holotype: KU 125896, by original designation. Type locality: "southern slope of Cerro Teotepec (17° 28′ N, 100° 08′ W), above the highest crest of the Milpillas-Atoyac Road on Cerro Teotepec just east of Puerto del Gallo (an abandoned lumber camp), Guerrero, Mexico, at an elevation of about 3425 m".

Pseudoeurycea (Pseudoeurycea) teotepec — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161.

Common Names

Teotepec Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 35).

Teotepec False Brook Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 621).

Distribution

Pine-fir forest in the region of the type locality, Cerro Teotepec, Guerrero, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

 Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 278, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 621, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). 

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