Aquiloeurycea scandens

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Plethodontidae
Subfamilia: Hemidactyliinae
Genus: Aquiloeurycea
Species: Aquiloeurycea scandens

Name

Aquiloeurycea scandens (Walker, 1955)

Holotype: UMMZ 100639, adult ♂, collected by Paul S. Martin, C. Richard Robins, and William B. Heed on 17 March 1949.

Type locality: “the walls of a Cave at "Rancho del Cielo", on the forested slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental in southern Tamaulipas, [Mexico,] about five miles northwest of Gómez Farías, elevation about 3500 feet”.

Combinations

Pseudoeurycea scandens Walker, 1955: 1 [original combination]
Aquiloeurycea scandens — Rovito, Parra-Olea, Recuero & Wake, 2015: 185 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

Walker, C.F. 1955. A new salamander of the genus Pseudoeurycea from Tamaulipas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 567: 1–8. hdl: 2027.42/57005
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.

Links

Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Aquiloeurycea scandens
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Aquiloeurycea scandens. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group 2016. IUCN: Aquiloeurycea scandens (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T59396A53984265. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59396A53984265.en

Vernacular names

English: Tamaulipan False Brook Salamander