Pseudoeurycea exspectata Stuart, 1954

Jalpa false brook salamander

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1976

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Guatemala

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Stuart, L. C. (1954). Descriptions of some new amphibians and reptiles from Guatemala. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington [1954]: 159-178.

Other references:

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. (2020). Pseudoeurycea exspectata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T59376A54381158. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T59376A54381158.en. Downloaded on 11 July 2020.

Köhler, G. 2011. Amphibians of Central America. Herpeton, Offenbach.

Raffaëlli, J. 2013. Les Urodèles du Monde. Deuxième Édition. Penclen, Plumelec, France.

Stuart, L.C. 1963. A checklist of the herpetofauna of Guatemala. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan: 1-150.

Wake, D.B. 1987. Adaptive radiation of salamanders in Middle American cloud forests. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74: 242-264.

Wake, D.B. and Lynch, J.F. 1976. The distribution, ecology, and evolutionary history of plethodontid salamanders in tropical America. Science Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 25: 1-65.

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Oedipina petiola Mccranie & Townsend, 2011

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1995

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution

Honduras

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

USNM 343462

Media

References

Original scientific description:

McCranie, James R. and Townsend, Josiah H. (2011). Description of a new species of worm salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae, Oedipina) in the subgenus Oedopinola from the central portionof the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras. Zootaxa 2990: 59-68.

Other references:

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. Oedipina petiola (amended version of 2019 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T51146806A176819122. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T51146806A176819122.en. Accessed on 08 July 2022.

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Protohynobius puxiongensis Fei & Ye, 2000

Puxiong salamander

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Protohynobius puxiongensis Fei and Ye, 2000

Conservation Status

Last record: 1965

Rediscovered in 2009

IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient

Distribution

China

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Fei, L. and Ye, C.-Y. 2000. A new Hynobid subfamily with a new genus and new specis of Hynobiidae from west China (Amphibia: Caudata). Cultum Herpetologica Sinica [2000]: 64-70.

Other references:

Fei Liang, Ye Changyuan. 2004. Pseudohynobius puxiongensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T59110A11882585. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59110A11882585.en. Downloaded on 12 February 2017.

Peng, Rui, Zhang, P., Xiong, J. L., Gu, H. J., Zeng, X. M., and Zou, F. D. (2010). Rediscovery of Protohynobius puxiongensis (Caudata: Hynobiidae) and its phylogenetic position based on complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(1): 252-258. [Abstract]

Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]

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Thorius narisovalis Taylor, 1939

Cerro pygmy salamander, Cerro San Felipe pigmy salamander, Upper Cerro pigmy salamander

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Rediscovered

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

Distribution

Mexico

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: EHT–HMS No. 17859 (Smith & Taylor, 1948:18)

Type locality: "Cerro San Felipe, 15 kilometers northeast of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, elevation 2,600 to 3,000 meters." (Smith & Taylor, 1948:18)

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Taylor, E. H. (1940 "1939"). New salamanders from Mexico, with a discussion of certain known forms. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 26: 407-430.

Other references:

Hanken, J. (1983). Genetic variation in a dwarfed lineage, the Mexican salamander genus Thorius (Amphibia: Plethodontidae): Taxonomic, ecologic, and evolutionary implications. Copeia 1983: 1051-1073.

Parra-Olea, G., García-París, M. and Wake, D.B. 1999. Status of some populations of Mexican salamanders. Revista de Biologia Tropical 47: 217-223.

Gabriela Parra-Olea, David Wake, James Hanken. (2008). Thorius narisovalis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 February 2013.

Smith, Hobart M. and Taylor, Edward H. (1948). An Annotated Checklist and Key to the Amphibia of Mexico. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 194: iv + 118 pp.

Wake, D.B. 1987. Adaptive radiation of salamanders in Middle American cloud forests. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74: 242-264.

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