Thorius maxillabrochus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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

Thorius maxillabrochus Gehlbach, 1959: 205

Holotype: USNM 140293, adult ♂, collected by Ralph H. Long Jr. on 12 August 1954.
Type locality: “ca. 8,400 feet, four miles west of Zoquitlán, Puebla, Mexico”.

Gehlbach, F.R. 1959. New plethodontid salamanders of the genus Thorius from Puebla, Mexico. Copeia 1959(3): 203–206. DOI: 10.2307/1440387

Hanken, J. & Wake, D.B. 1998. Biology of Tiny Animals: Systematics of the Minute Salamanders (Thorius: Plethodontidae) from Veracruz and Puebla, México, with Descriptions of Five New Species. Copeia 1998(2): 312–345. DOI: 10.2307/1447427 Reference page.
Rovito, S.M., Parra-Olea, G., Hanken, J., Bonett, R.M. & Wake, D.B. 2013. Adaptive radiation in miniature: the minute salamanders of the Mexican highlands (Amphibia: Plethodontidae: Thorius). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109(3): 622–643. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12083 Reference page.

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. IUCN: Thorius maxillabrochus (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T87633095A87633098. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T87633095A87633098.en. Accessed on 02 July 2026.