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Issue: Vol. 2990 No. 1: 9 Aug. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-08-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2990.1.4
Page range: 59–68
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of a new species of worm salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae, Oedipina) in the subgenus Oedopinola from the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras JAMES R. MCCRANIE & JOSIAH H. TOWNSEND (USA)

10770 SW 164th Street, Miami, FL 33157–2933, USA
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA, and Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Departamento de Francisco Morazán, Honduras
Amphibia Oedipina subgenus Oedopinola Oedipina petiola sp. nov. Honduras Parque Nacional Pico Bonito morphology mtDNA 16S cytochrome b

Abstract

We describe a new species of Oedipina (subgenus Oedopinola) from Parque Nacional Pico Bonito in the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios in north-central Honduras. The new species was previously assigned to O. gephyra, but a combination of molecular analyses and its differences in foot morphology diagnose it from O. gephyra.

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