Pseudoeurycea, TAYLOR, 1944

Rovito, Sean M., Parra-Olea, Gabriela, Recuero, Ernesto & Wake, David B., 2015, Diversification and biogeographical history of Neotropical plethodontid salamanders, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 175 (1), pp. 167-188 : 184

PSEUDOEURYCEA TAYLOR, 1944

Type species: Spelerpes leprosus Cope, 1869 .

Synonymy: Lineatriton Tanner, 1950 . Diagnosis: Moderate to small salamanders, with moderate to short limbs, moderately robust to slender to very slender bodies and moderately to very long tails, with limbs of moderate to short length and short fifth toes.

Assigned taxa: Pseudoeurycea ahuitzotl Adler, 1996 ; P. altamontana (Tayor, 1939) ; P. amuzga Perez-Ramos & Saldaña de la Riva, 2003 ; anitae Bogert, 1967; P. aquatica Wake and Campbell, 2001; P. brunnata Bumzahem & Smith, 1955 ; P. cochranae (Taylor, 1943) ; conanti Bogert, 1967; P. exspectata Stuart, 1954 ; P. firscheini Shannon & Werler, 1955 ; P. gadovii ( Dunn, 1926) ; P. goebeli (Schmidt, 1936) ; P. juarezi Regal, 1966 ; P. kuautli Campbell, Brodie, Blancas-Hernández & Smith, 2014 ; P. leprosa (Cope, 1869) ; P. lineola (Cope, 1865) ; P. longicauda Lynch , Wake & Yang, 1983; P. lynchi Parra-Olea, Papenfuss & Wake, 2001; P. melanomolga (Taylor, 1941) ; P. mixcoatl Adler, 1996 ; P. mixteca Canseco-Márquez & Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2005 ; P. mystax Bogert, 1967 ; P. nigromaculata (Taylor, 1939) ; P. obesa Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken & Wake, 2005; P. orchileucos (Brodie, Mendelson & Campbell, 2002) ; P. orchimelas (Brodie, Mendelson & Campbell, 2002) ; P. papenfussi Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken & Wake, 2005; P. rex ( Dunn, 1926) ; P. robertsi (Taylor, 1939) ; P. ruficauda Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken & Wake, 2004; P. saltator Lynch & Wake, 1989; P. tenchalli Adler, 1996 ; P. teotepec Adler, 1996 ; P. tlahcuiloh Adler, 1996 ; P. tlilicxitl Lara-Góngora, 2003 ; P. unguidentis (Taylor, 1941) ; P. werleri Darling & Smith, 1954 .

Comments: Pseudoeurycea has long been a problematic taxon because of the absence of morphological synapomorphies for the included taxa. The genus with the revised content is robustly supported as a clade by the molecular data presented herein, but several species are assigned tentatively because of their rarity and the absence of tissue samples ( P. amuzga , P. aquatica , P. kuautli , P. teotepec , P. tlilicxitl ). We found robustly supported clades within Pseudoeurycea , one corresponding to the leprosa group of Parra-Olea (2002) and the other to her gadovii group. We have not named these groups because we know of no diagnostic characters. Each of these contains additional subclades, and we especially point out the division of the leprosa group into a leprosa subclade (including P. leprosa , P. firscheini , P. lynchi , P. mystax , P. nigromaculata , P. obesa , and P. werleri , as well as the species formerly assigned to Lineatriton : P. lineola , P. orchileucos , and P. orchimelas ) and a juarezi subclade (including P. juarezi , P. aurantia , P. ruficauda , P. saltator , and P. unguidentis ).