Ixalotriton parvus

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: Ixalotriton
Species: Ixalotriton parvus

Name

• Ixalotriton parvus (Lynch & Wake, 1989)

Holotype: MVZ 196101, adult ♂, collected by Ken Lucas, no date.

Type locality: “in an arborel bromeliad on a ridge SE Cerro Baul, 21 km W Rizo de Oro, Chiapas, Mexico (ca. 1,600 m). The type-locality is just within the eastern border of the state of Oaxaca”.

Combinations

• Pseudoeurycea parva Lynch & Wake, 1989: 15 [original combination]
• Ixalotriton parvus — Parra-Olea, 2002: 234 [subsequent combination]
• Pseudoeurycea parva — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006: 359 [subsequent combination]
• Ixalotriton parva — Raffaëlli, 2007: 225 [subsequent combination, incorrect subsequent spelling]
• Ixalotriton parvus — Rovito, Parra-Olea, Recuero & Wake, 2015: 173 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Lynch, J.F. & Wake, D.B. 1989. Two new species of Pseudoeurycea (Amphibia: Caudata) from Oaxaca, Mexico. Contributions in Science. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 411: 11–22. BHL
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• 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. Ixalotriton parvus
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Ixalotriton parvus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group 2016. IUCN: Ixalotriton parvus  (Critically Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T59288A53979791. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T59288A53979791.en

Vernacular names

English: Dwarf False Brook Salamander