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Issue: Vol. 4369 No. 4: 8 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4369.4.2
Page range: 487–500
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A new moss salamander, genus Nototriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from the Cordillera de Talamanca, in the Costa Rica-Panama border region

Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, UNAM, AP 70-153 Ciudad Universitaria, CP 04510, México, D.F., México. Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, 11501–2060 San José, Costa Rica.
Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center, Guayacán, Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica.
Amphibia caudate Central America Nototriton picadoi species group Talamanca

Abstract

A new salamander belonging to the genus Nototriton, subgenus Nototriton, is described from the Caribbean slopes of the southeastern Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica, within Parque Internacional La Amistad, at an elevation ca. 1500 m a.s.l. This new taxon is distinguished from its congeners by its morphological characteristics and by its differentiation in DNA sequences of the 16S rRNA, cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), and cytochrome b mitochondrial genes. This new species represents the southernmost extension known for the genus Nototriton.

 

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