Oedipina

Oedipina taylori

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Caudata Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Plethodontidae
Subfamilia: Hemidactyliinae
Genus: Oedipina
Subgenera (3): O. (Oedipina) – O. (Oedopinola) – O. (Oeditriton)
Overview of species (40): O. alfaroi – O. alleni – O. altura – O. berlini – O. capitalina – O. carablanca – O. chortiorum – O. collaris – O. complex – O. cyclocauda – O. ecuatoriana – O. elongata – O. fortunensis – O. gephyra – O. gracilis – O. grandis – O. ignea – O. kasios – O. koehleri – O. leptopoda – O. maritima – O. motaguae – O. nica – O. nimaso – O. pacificensis – O. parvipes – O. paucidentata – O. petiola – O. poelzi – O. pseudouniformis – O. quadra – O. salvadorensis – O. savagei – O. stenopodia – O. stuarti – O. taylori – O. tomasi – O. tzutujilorum – O. uniformis – O. villamizariorum

Name

Oedipina Keferstein, 1868: 299

• Type species: Oedipina uniformis Keferstein, 1868, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Ophiobatrachus Gray, 1868: 297
  • Type species: Ophiobatrachus vermicularis Gray, 1868, by monotypy.
• Haptoglossa Cope, 1893: 334
  • Type species: Haptoglossa pressicauda Cope, 1893, by monotypy.
• Oedopinola Hilton, 1946: 38
  • Type species: Oedipus complex Dunn, 1924, by original designation.
• Oeditriton McCranie, Vieites & Wake, 2008: 5
  • Type species: not designated.

References

Primary references

• Keferstein, W.M. 1868. Ueber einige Batrachier aus Costarica. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 34: 291–300.
• McCranie, J.R., Vieites, D.R. & Wake, D.B. 2008. Description of a new divergent lineage and three new species of Honduran salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Caudata, Plethodontidae). Zootaxa 1930: 1–17.

Additional references

• Köhler, G., Ponce, M. & Batista, A. 2007. A new species of worm salamander (genus Oedipina) from Fortuna, western central Panama. Senckenbergiana Biologica 87(2): 213–217. Reference page. 
• Sunyer, J., Wake, D.B., Townsend, J.H., Travers, S.L., Rovito, S.M., Papenfuss, T.J., Obando, L.A. & Köhler,G. 2010. A new species of worm salamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Oedipina) in the subgenus Oeditriton from the highlands of northern Nicaragua. Zootaxa 2613(1): 29–39. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2613.1.3 Reference page. 
• McCranie, J.R. & Townsend, J.H. 2011. Description of a new species of worm salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae, Oedipina) in the subgenus Oedopinola from the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras. Zootaxa 2990: 59–68.
• Sunyer, J., Townsend, J.H., Wake, D.B., Travers, S.L., Gonzalez, S.C., Obando, L.A. & Quintana, A.Z. 2011. A new cryptic species of salamander, genus Oedipina (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from premontane elevations in northern Nicaragua, with comments on the systematic status of the Nicaraguan paratypes of O. pseudouniformis Brame, 1968. Breviora 526: 1–15. BHL Reference page. 
• Boza-Oviedo, E., Rovito, S.M., Chaves, G., García-Rodríguez, A., Artavia, L.G., Bolaños, F. & Wake, D.B. 2012. Salamanders from the eastern Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica, with descriptions of five new species (Plethodontidae: Bolitoglossa, Nototriton, and Oedipina) and natural history notes from recent expeditions. Zootaxa 3309(1): 36–61. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3309.1.2 Reference page. 
• Brodie, Jr., E.D., Acevedo, M. & Campbell, J.A. 2012. New salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from Guatemala. Journal of Herpetology 46(2): 233–240. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Kubicki, B. 2016. A new species of salamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Oedipina) from the central Caribbean foothills of Costa Rica. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 819–840. PDF Reference page. 
• Solís, J.M., Espinal, M.R., Valle, R.E., O'Reilly, C.M., Itgen, M.W. & Townsend, J.H. 2016. On the taxonomy of Oedipina stuarti (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with description of a new species from suburban Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Salamandra 52(2): 125–133. PDF Reference page. 
• Reyes-Puig, C., Wake, D.B., Kotharambath, R., Streicher, J.W., Koch, C., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Yánez-Muñoz, M.H. & Ron, S.R. 2020. Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador. PeerJ 8: e9934. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9934 Reference page. 
• Dubois, A., Ohler, A. & Pyron, R.A. 2021. New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians. Megataxa 5(1): 1–738. DOI: 10.11646/MEGATAXA.5.1.1 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Worm Salamanders