A morphologically distinct new species of Pseudoeurycea (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico

Herpetologica

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 478-484

  Parra Olea, Gabriela ^a   Canseco Márquez, Luis ^a   García París, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Caudata; Mexico; New species; North America; Plethodontidae; Pseudoeurycea; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CAUDATA; FILICOPHYTA; LIQUIDAMBAR; PLETHODONTIDAE; PSEUDOEURYCEA; PSEUDOEURYCEA PRAECELLENS; QUERCUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10644294024     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/03-76     Document Type: Article

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