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Urodela (Salamanders, Newts, Axolotls etc.)

 

Suborder: Cryptobranchoidea

Family: Hynobiidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Hynobius turkestanicus Nikolsky, 1910
Turkestanian salamander
? "between Pamir and Samarkand" Missing Access
Protohynobius puxiongensis Fei & Ye, 2000   - China Rediscovered Access

 

 

Suborder: Salamandroidea

Family: Ambystomatidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Ambystoma amblycephalum Taylor, 1940 Blunt-headed salamander ?
Mexico
Rediscovered Access
Ambystoma leorae Taylor, 1943 Leora’s stream salamander -
High mountains near Rio Frio, Mexico
Rediscovered Access
Ambystoma lermaense (Taylor, 1940) Lake Lerma salamander ? México state, México Missing Access

 

Family: Amphiumidae

—No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Dicamptodontidae

—No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Plethodontidae (Lungless Salamanders)

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Aquiloeurycea praecellens (Rabb, 1955) Admirable false brook salamander 24 December 1940 Veracruz, México Missing Access
Batrachoseps sp. nov. 'Breckenridge' - Breckenridge Mountain slender salamander 1983 California, USA Missing Access
Bolitoglossa capitana Brame & Wake, 1963 Orphan salamander (rediscovered) Colombia Rediscovered Access
Bolitoglossa hermosa Papenfuss, Wake and Adler, 1983 (1984) Guerreran mushroomtongue salamander, Guerreran salamander (rediscovered) México Rediscovered Access
Bolitoglossa jacksoni Elias, 1984 Jackson’s salamander, Jackson’s climbing salamander, Jackson's mushroomtongue salamander (rediscovered) Guatemala Rediscovered Access
Bolitoglossa magnifica Hanken, Wake & Savage, 2005 Magnificent web-footed salamander (rediscovered) Chiriquí Province, Panama Rediscovered Access
Bolitoglossa marmorea Tanner & Brame, 1961 Crater salamander (rediscovered) Costa Rica & Panama Rediscovered Access
Bolitoglossa nussbaumi Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo & Brodie, 2010   1998 Guatemala Missing Access
Bolitoglossa taylori Wake, Brame & Myers, 1970 Cerro Cituro salamander (rediscovered) Panama Rediscovered Access
Bradytriton silus Wake & Elias, 1983 Finca Chiblac salamander (rediscovered) Guatemala Rediscovered Access
Chiropterotriton arboreus (Taylor, 1941) Arboreal splayfoot salamander, Arboreal flat-footed salamander (rediscovered) Hidalgo, México Rediscovered Access
Chiropterotriton casasi Parra-Olea, García-Castillo, Rovito, Maisano, Hanken & Wake, 2020 Tlapacoyan salamander 1969 Veracruz, Mexico Missing Access
Chiropterotriton chiropterus (Cope, 1863) Common splayfoot salamander (rediscovered) Veracruz, México Rediscovered Access
Chiropterotriton lavae (Taylor, 1942) Pigmy splayfoot salamander, Pigmy flat-footed salamander (rediscovered) Veracruz, México Rediscovered Access
Chiropterotriton magnipes Rabb, 1965 Bigfoot splayfoot salamander (rediscovered) México Rediscovered Access
Chiropterotriton mosaueri (Woodall, 1941) Cave splayfoot salamander (rediscovered) México Rediscovered Access
Dendrotriton cuchumatanus (Lynch & Wake, 1975) Forest bromeliad salamander - Guatemala Rediscovered Access
Desmognathus fuscus carri Neill, 1951 - c.50 years ago Florida, USA Invalid (synonym) Access

Eurycea robusta

(Longley, 1978) Blanco blind salamander 23 July 1951 Hays County, Texas Missing Access
Eurycea troglodytes ssp. nov. 'Valdina Farms' -
Valdina Farms salamander, Valdina Farms sinkhole salamander
1987 Medina County, Texas, USA Missing Access
Isthmura naucampatepetl (Parra-Olea, Papenfuss & Wake, 2001) Cofre de Perote Salamander (rediscovered) Veracruz, Mexico Rediscovered Access
Nyctanolis pernix Elias & Wake, 1983 Nimble long-limbed salamander - Guatemala & Mexico Rediscovered Access
Oedipina paucidentata Brame, 1968 El Empalme worm salamander 1952 Costa Rica Missing Access
Oedipina petiola Mccranie & Townsend, 2011 - 1995 Honduras Missing Access
Parvimolge townsendi (Dunn, 1922)   - Veracruz (east-central), Mexico Rediscovered Access
Plethodon ainsworthi Lazell, 1998 Ainsworth’s salamander 12 June 1964 Jasper County, Mississippi, USA Extinct Access
Plethodon neomexicanus Stebbins & Riemer, 1950 Jemez Mountains salamander - USA Rediscovered Access
Pseudoeurycea ahuitzotl Adler, 1996 Cerro Teotepec false brook salamander (rediscovered) México Rediscovered Access
Pseudoeurycea anitae Bogert, 1967 Anita false brook salamander 1976 Oaxaca, México Missing Access
Pseudoeurycea aquatica Wake & Campbell, 2001 Aquatic false brook salamander 9 April 1978 Oaxaca, México Missing Access
Pseudoeurycea brunnata Bumzahem & Smith, 1955 Brown false brook salamander ? México & Guatemala  Missing Access
Pseudoeurycea conanti Bogert, 1967 Conant’s false brook salamander ? México Missing Access
Pseudoeurycea exspectata
Stuart, 1954 Jalpa false brook salamander 1976 Guatemala Extinct Access
Pseudoeurycea lynchi Parra-Olea, Papenfuss & Wake, 2001 - (rediscovered) Mexico Rediscovered Access
Pseudoeurycea nigra (Wake & Johnson, 1989) - (rediscovered) Chiapas, México Rediscovered Access
Pseudoeurycea nigromaculata Taylor, 1941 Black-spotted false brook salamander 2007 México Missing Access
Pseudoeurycea parva Lynch & Wake, 1989 Cerro Baul dwarf bromeliad salamander (rediscovered) México Rediscovered Access
Pseudoeurycea smithi (Taylor, 1938) Smith's false brook salamander, Smith's salamander (rediscovered) Oaxaca, Mexico Rediscovered Access
Pseudoeurycea teotepec Adler, 1996 Teotepec salamander 10 August 1964 Mexico Missing Access
Pseudoeurycea tlahcuiloh Adler, 1996 - (rediscovered) Guerrero, México Rediscovered Access
Pseudoeurycea unguidentis (Taylor, 1941) Claw-toothed salamander 1976 Oaxaca, México Extinct Access

Thorius aureus

Hanken & Wake, 1994 Yellow pygmy salamander ? México Missing Access
Thorius infernalis Hanken, Wake & Freeman, 1999 Atoyac pygmy salamander, Atoyac minute salamander Early 1980's (1977?) México Missing Access
Thorius longicaudus Parra-Olea, Rovito, García-París, Maisano, Wake & Hanken, 2016 Long-tailed minute salamander 1998 Oaxaca, Mexico Missing Access
Thorius magnipes Hanken and Wake, 1998 Big-footed pygmy salamander - Mexico Rediscovered Access
Thorius minutissimus Taylor, 1949   - Oaxaca (south-eastern), México Rediscovered Access
Thorius munificus Hanken & Wake, 1998   - above Las Vigas, central Veracruz, Mexico Rediscovered Access
Thorius minydemus Hanken & Wake, 1998 - c.1999 Veracruz, México Missing Access
Thorius narismagnus Shannon and Werler, 1955 San Martin pygmy salamander - Veracruz (southern), México Rediscovered Access
Thorius narisovalis Taylor, 1939 Cerro pygmy salamander, Cerro San Felipe pigmy salamander, Upper Cerro pigmy salamander - Mexico Rediscovered Access

 

 

Family: Proteidae

—No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Rhyacotritonidae

—No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Salamandridae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Cynops orphicus Risch, 1983 Dayang newt (rediscovered) China Rediscovered Access
Cynops wolterstorffi (Boulenger, 1905)
Yunnan Lake newt
? China Extinct Access
Cynops pyrrhogaster ssp. "Atsumi" - Japanese fire-bellied newt (rediscovered) Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Chubu region, Honshū, Japan Rediscovered Access
Neurergus derjugini derjugini (Nesterov, 1916) Kurdistan newt (rediscovered) Iran Rediscovered Access
Pachytriton granulosus Chang, 1933   - Zhejiang, China Rediscovered Access

 

 

Suborder: Sirenoidea

Family: Sirenidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Pseudobranchus robustus Goin & Auffenberg, 1955 - Late Pleistocene Florida, USA Extinct Access

 

 

Appendix 1: Other papers that may be of interest

Gutsche, Alexander, Tillack, Frank and Mahlow, Kristin. (2017). Rediscovery and description of the holotype of Oedipus paraensis Unterstein, 1930 (Amphibia, Plethodontidae), and invalidation of the neotype. Zootaxa 4282(2): 395-400. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.12 [Abstract]

 

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