Aquiloeurycea

Aquiloeurycea
Aquiloeurycea scandens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Plethodontidae
Subfamily:	Hemidactyliinae
Genus:	Aquiloeurycea Rovito, Parra-Olea, Recuero, and Wake, 2015 [1]
Type species
Spelerpes cephalicus Cope, 1869

Aquiloeurycea is a genus of salamanders in the family Plethodontidae. They are endemic to Mexico. ^[2] The genus corresponds to the former "Pseudoeurycea cephalica species group", which was established in order to preserve Ixalotriton and Bolitoglossa while avoiding paraphyly of Pseudoeurycea . ^[3]

Species

It contains the following species: ^{[2] [4]}

• Aquiloeurycea cafetalera (Parra-Olea, Rovito, Márquez-Valdelmar, Cruz, Murrieta-Galindo, and Wake, 2010)
• Aquiloeurycea cephalica (Cope, 1865)
• Aquiloeurycea galeanae (Taylor, 1941)
• Aquiloeurycea praecellens (Rabb, 1955)
• Aquiloeurycea quetzalanensis (Parra-Olea, Canseco-Márquez, and García-París, 2004)
• Aquiloeurycea scandens (Walker, 1955)

Gallery

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  Chunky false brook salamander (Aquiloeurycea cephalica), El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, Municipality of Gómez Farías, Tamaulipas, Mexico (12 August 2004).
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  Galeana false brook salamander (Aquiloeurycea galeanae). Miquihuana, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 5 October 2008. W. L. Farr
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  Tamaulipan false brook salamander (Aquiloeurycea scandens), El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, Municipality of Gómez Farías, Tamaulipas, Mexico (25 May 2005).

References

1. Rovito, Sean M.; Parra-Olea, Gabriela; Recuero, Ernesto; Wake, David B. (2015). "Diversification and biogeographical history of Neotropical plethodontid salamanders" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (1): 167–188. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12271 .
2. Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Aquiloeurycea Rovito, Parra-Olea, Recuero, and Wake, 2015". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
3. Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Pseudoeurycea Taylor, 1944". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
4. "Plethodontidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.