Another New Salamander of the Genus<i>Pseudoeurycea</i>from the State of Guerrero, Mexico

Campbell, Jonathan A.; Brodie, Edmund D.; Blancas-Hernández, Jean Cristian; Smith, Eric N.

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“…However, the west and east portions of the Sierra have been largely ignored. Recent visits to the west portion have yielded a number of discoveries of new species (e.g., Campbell and Flores-Villela 2008, Campbell et al 2009, Pavón-Vázquez et al 2011, Feria-Ortiz and García-Vázquez 2012, Campbell et al 2014). This suggests that the diversity of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero is higher than currently known (Palacios-Aguilar and Flores-Villela 2018), particularly for small and secretive snakes as exemplified by the present work and the recent descriptions of Epictiaschneideri Wallach, 2016, Geophisoccabus Pavón-Vázquez, García-Vázquez, Blancas-Hernández & Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2011, and Rhadinelladysmica Campillo, Dávila-Galavíz, Flores-Villela & Campbell, 2016.…”

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A new rare species of the Rhadinaea decorata group from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico (Squamata, Colubridae)

García‐Vázquez¹,

Pavón‐Vázquez²,

Blancas-Hernández³

et al. 2018

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A new species of the Rhadinaeadecorata group is described based on two specimens from the Sierra Madre del Sur, Guerrero, Mexico. The new species differs from all other members of the genus Rhadinaea by having: eight supralabials; 149–151 (male) ventrals; 63–77 (male) subcaudals; two large pale nuchal blotches, forming an incomplete collar that occupies two scales laterally and is bissected along the dorsal midline; a postocular pale marking consisting of a well-defined, narrow line beginning behind the upper posterior margin of the eye and extending posteriorly nearly horizontally until connecting with the nuchal blotches; and the dark ground color of the flanks extending to the lateral portion of the ventrals. The large nuchal blotches distinguish the new species from the other members of the R.decorata group, except for R.cuneata and some individuals of R.hesperia (pale nuchal marking one-scale wide in R.marcellae, absent in the other species). The condition of the postocular pale marking distinguishes it from R.cuneata and R.hesperia (postocular pale marking wedge-shaped in R.cuneata, not connected with the pale post-cephalic markings in R.hesperia). Furthermore, the number of subcaudals and the coloration of the lateral portion of the ventrals distinguish it from R.omiltemana and R.taeniata, the remaining congeners found in Guerrero (85–90 in males of R.omiltemana and 91–121 in R.taeniata; dark color of the flanks not reaching ventrals in the former species, occasionally and faintly in R.taeniata). Additionally, a new combination for R.stadelmani is proposed. The new species is the first described in the genus Rhadinaea in more than 40 years.

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A new rare species of the Rhadinaea decorata group from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico (Squamata, Colubridae)

García‐Vázquez¹,

Pavón‐Vázquez²,

Blancas-Hernández³

et al. 2018

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A new species ofBolitoglossa(Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from the central highlands of Guerrero, Mexico

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We describe a new species of salamander of Bolitoglossa (Oaxakia) Parra-Olea, García-París and Wake, 2004 from the cloud forests of the central portion of the Sierra Madre del Sur highlands in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Bolitoglossa coaxtlahuacana sp. nov. is currently known only from the type locality and can be differentiated from other members of the group by morphological, coloration, and molecular evidence. With the description of this new taxon, the number of species in the subgenus Oaxakia increases to six.

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A New Species of Pseudoeurycea (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Mountains of Central Veracruz, Mexico

García-Bañuelos

Aguilar-López

Kelly-Hernández³

et al. 2020

Journal of Herpetology

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Another New Salamander of the GenusPseudoeuryceafrom the State of Guerrero, Mexico

Cited by 4 publications

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A new rare species of the Rhadinaea decorata group from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico (Squamata, Colubridae)

A new rare species of the Rhadinaea decorata group from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico (Squamata, Colubridae)

A new species ofBolitoglossa(Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from the central highlands of Guerrero, Mexico

A New Species of Pseudoeurycea (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Mountains of Central Veracruz, Mexico

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