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Type: Article
Published: 2015-11-24
Page range: 57–74
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Two new species of Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from northern Mexico

Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, CINVESTAV, km 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera León, Irapuato, CP 36821, Guanajuato, México.
Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-153, Tercer Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, México, Distrito Federal, México.
Reptilia salamander bolitogossines molecular phylogenetics morphology Tamaulipas Nuevo León

Abstract

Species of the genus Chiropterotriton are distributed through much of northern and eastern Mexico. The genus has presented taxonomic difficulties, with a number of species waiting to be described. We describe two new species, Chiropterotriton cieloensis sp. nov. and Chiropterotriton infernalis sp. nov., from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas based on both molecular and morphological data. We present a phylogenetic hypothesis for the group, with emphasis on the taxa from northern Mexico, based on mitochondrial DNA, and discuss the other species of northern Mexico, especially the wider-ranging C. multidentatus, to which the new species were formerly assigned.