Nototriton (Nototriton) costaricense Arias & Kubicki, 2018

Kubicki, Brian, Reyes, Aura & Arias, Erick, 2022, Revised taxonomy and distributions of Costa Rican moss salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Nototriton), with descriptions of new taxa, Zootaxa 5194 (4), pp. 451-496 : 488

Nototriton (Nototriton) costaricense Arias & Kubicki, 2018

Southern moss salamander

Holotype. UCR 22900, by original designation, a subadult from Costa Rica: Provincia de Limón: Cantón de Talamanca: Distrito de Telire: Cerro Pat, Parque Internacional La Amistad , ca. 1500 m a.s.l., obtained by Erick Arias on 11 March 2015.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the Spanish word meaning Costa Rican, “costaricense”. The name represents the fact that the holotype and species was discovered in Costa Rica. Given the close proximity of the type locality to the Costa Rica-Panama border, we speculate that one day it may indeed be discovered within Panama as well ( Arias & Kubicki 2018).

Distribution. Nototriton costaricense is known from a single site within the Lower Montane Rain Forest life zone ( Holdridge 1967) along the mid-elevation slopes of the extreme southeastern Cordillera de Talamanca, within Parque Internacional La Amistad, in the vicinity of Cerro Pat, ca. 1500 m ( Arias & Kubicki 2018).