Oedipina

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Oedipina
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Oedipina taylori
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Plethodontidae
Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae
Genus: Oedipina
Keferstein, 1868
Species

See table.

Oedipina is a genus of lungless salamanders, which is characterized by their absence of lungs; they instead achieve respiration through their skin and the tissues lining their mouth. Species of Oedipina are endemic to Honduras, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico. The common name of worm salamanders derives from the species' extraordinarily slender form with tiny limbs and digits.

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Species

This genus includes the following 40 species: [1]

Binomial Name and AuthorCommon Name
Oedipina alfaroi
Dunn, 1921		Limon worm salamander
Oedipina alleni
Taylor, 1954		Allen's worm salamander
Oedipina altura
Brame, 1968		Cartago worm salamander
Oedipina berlini
Kubicki, 2016		Berlin's flat-headed salamander
Oedipina capitalina
Solis, Espinal, Valle, O'Reilly, Itgen, and Townsend, 2016		Cerro Grande worm salamander
Oedipina carablanca
Brame, 1968		Los Diamantes worm salamander
Oedipina chortiorum
Brodie, Acevedo, and Campbell, 2012		Chorti worm salamander
Oedipina collaris
(Stejneger, 1907)		Collared worm salamander
Oedipina complex
(Dunn, 1924)		Gamboa worm salamander
Oedipina cyclocauda
Taylor, 1952		Costa Rican worm salamander
Oedipina ecuatoriana
Reyes-Puig, Wake, Kotharambath, Streicher, Koch, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz & Ron, 2020		Ecuadorian worm salamander
Oedipina elongata
(Schmidt, 1936)		White-crowned worm salamander
Oedipina fortunensis
Köhler, Ponce & Batista, 2007		Gustavo worm salamander
Oedipina gephyra
McCranie, Wilson & Williams, 1993		La Fortuna worm salamander
Oedipina gracilis
Taylor, 1952		Slender worm salamander
Oedipina grandis
Brame & Duellman, 1970		Cerro Pando worm salamander
Oedipina ignea
Stuart, 1952		Chimaltenango worm salamander
Oedipina kasois
McCrane, Vieites & Wake, 2008		Muralla worm salamander
Oedipina koehleri
Sunyer, Townsend, Wake, Travers, Gonzalez, Obando, and Quintana, 2011
Oedipina leptopoda
McCrane, Vieites & Wake, 2008		Narrow-footed worm salamander
Oedipina maritima
García-París & Wake, 2000		Maritime worm salamander
Oedipina motaguae
Brodie, Acevedo, and Campbell, 2012		Motagua worm salamander
Oedipina nica
Sunyer, & Wake, 2010		Nicaraguan worm salamander
Oedipina nimaso
Boza-Oviedo, Rovito, Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Artavia, Bolaños, and Wake, 2012		Nimaso worm salamander
Oedipina pacificensis
Taylor, 1952		Pacific worm salamander
Oedipina parvipes
(Peters, 1879)		Columbian worm salamander
Oedipina paucidentata
Brame, 1968		El Empalme worm salamander
Oedipina petiola
McCranie and Townsend, 2011
Oedipina poelzi
Brame, 1963		Quarry worm salamander
Oedipina pseudouniformis
Brame, 1968		False Cienega Colorado worm salamander
Oedipina quadra
McCrane, Vieites & Wake, 2008		Honduran lowland worm salamander
Oedipina salvadorensis
Rand, 1952
Oedipina savagei
García-París & Wake, 2000		Savage's worm salamander
Oedipina stenopodia
Brodie & Campbell, 1993		Narrow-footed worm salamander
Oedipina stuarti
Brame, 1968		Stuart's worm salamander
Oedipina taylori
Stuart, 1952		Taylor's worm salamander
Oedipina tomasi
McCranie, 2006		Tomas' worm salamander
Oedipina tzutujilorum
Brodie, Acevedo, and Campbell, 2012		Tzutujil worm salamander
Oedipina uniformis
Keferstein, 1868		Cienega Colorado worm salamander
Oedipina villamizariorum
Reyes-Puig, Wake, Kotharambath, Streicher, Koch, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz & Ron, 2020		Villamizar's worm salamander

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<i>Oedipina taylori</i> Species of amphibian

Oedipina taylori, commonly known as Taylor's worm salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is found on the Pacific versant in south-eastern Guatemala, to central to north-eastern El Salvador and adjacent southern Honduras. Honduran populations might represent another species.

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References

  1. ↑ Reyes-Puig C, Wake DB, Kotharambath R, Streicher JW, Koch C, Cisneros-Heredia DF, et al. (October 2020). "Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador". PeerJ. 8: e9934. doi:10.7717/peerj.9934. PMC   7534686 . PMID   33062424.
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