Aquiloeurycea praecellens

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Aquiloeurycea praecellens (Rabb, 1955)

Holotype: MCZ 24701, immature ♀, collected by Archie F. Carr on 24 December 1940.
Type locality: “Hacienda El Potrero, near the city of Cordoba, Vera Cruz, Mexico”.

Parvimolge praecellens Rabb, 1955: 1 [original combination]
Pseudoeurycea praecellens — Wake & Elias, 1983: 12 [subsequent combination]
Aquiloeurycea praecellens — Rovito, Parra-Olea, Recuero & Wake, 2015: 185 [subsequent combination]

Rabb. 1955. A new salamander of the genus Parvimolge from Mexico. Breviora 42: 1–9. BHL
Wake, D.B. & Elias, P. 1983. New genera and new species of Central American salamanders, with a review of the tropical genera (Amphibia, Caudata, Plethodontidae). Contributions in Science. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 345: 1–19. BHL
Rovito, S.M., Parra-Olea, G., Recuero, E. & Wake, D.B. 2015. Diversification and biogeographical history of Neotropical plethodontid salamanders. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(1): 167–188. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12271 Reference page.

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group 2016. IUCN: Aquiloeurycea praecellens (Critically Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T59391A53983683. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59391A53983683.en

English: Admirable False Brook Salamander