Range extension of the Giant Salamander, Pseudoeurycea gigantea (Taylor 1938) (Caudata: Pletodontidae), and some aspects of its natural history within Hidalgo state, Mexico

Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista; Luis Manuel Badillo Saldaña; Christian Berriozabal-Islas; Claudia Beteta-Hernández

doi:10.15560/11.1.1521

Check List 11(1): e19119, doi: 10.15560/11.1.1521

Range extension of the Giant Salamander, Pseudoeurycea gigantea (Taylor 1938) (Caudata: Pletodontidae), and some aspects of its natural history within Hidalgo state, Mexico

Luis Manuel Badillo-Saldaña^‡, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista^‡, Christian Berriozabal-Islas^‡, Claudia I. Beteta-Hernández^§

‡ Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico§ ramibautistaa@gmail.com, Mexico

Corresponding author: Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista ( ramibautistaa@gmail.com )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Ramírez-Bautista A, Badillo Saldaña L, Berriozabal-Islas C, Beteta-Hernández C (2015) Range extension of the Giant Salamander, Pseudoeurycea gigantea (Taylor 1938) (Caudata: Pletodontidae), and some aspects of its natural history within Hidalgo state, Mexico. Check List 11(1): 1521. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.1.1521

Abstract

This study documents the most northerly known distribution of the giant salamander, Pseudoeurycea gigantea, and provides new details on aspects of its natural history based on specimens of this species collected within Hidalgo state, Mexico.

Keywords

Sierra Madre Oriental; diet; endemic; Caudata; critically endangered