Nototriton (Nototriton) guanacaste Good & Wake, 1993

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 : 489

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.4.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7156849

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Nototriton (Nototriton) guanacaste Good & Wake, 1993
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Nototriton (Nototriton) guanacaste Good & Wake, 1993 View in CoL

Guanacaste moss salamander

Nototriton guanacaste Good & Wake (1993: 138) View in CoL .

Nototriton (Nototriton) guanacaste: Dubois & Raffaëlli (2012: 141) View in CoL .

Holotype. MVZ 207111 About MVZ , by original designation, an adult male from Costa Rica: Provincia de Guanacaste : Cantón de Liberia: Distrito de Mayorga: Guanacaste National Park: upper slopes of the Cacao Volcano , 1580 m a.s.l., collected by D. C. Cannattela and D. A. Good on 24 August 1987 ( Good & Wake 1993).

Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition and was chosen in celebration of establishment of Guanacaste National Park, where this species is known to be restricted ( Good & Wake 1993).

Distribution. Nototriton guanacaste is currently only known to inhabit two small patches of cloud forest within Guanacaste National Park, both located on the upper slopes of the Orosi and Cacao volcanoes between roughly 1400–1650 masl ( Savage 2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Caudata

Family

Plethodontidae

Genus

Nototriton

Loc

Nototriton (Nototriton) guanacaste Good & Wake, 1993

Kubicki, Brian, Reyes, Aura & Arias, Erick 2022
2022
Loc

Nototriton (Nototriton) guanacaste: Dubois & Raffaëlli (2012: 141)

Dubois, A. & Raffaelli, J. 2012: )
2012
Loc

Nototriton guanacaste

Good, D. A. & Wake, D. B. 1993: )
1993
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