Aquiloeurycea, Rovito & Parra-Olea & Recuero & Wake, 2015

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 : 185

AQUILOEURYCEA GEN. NOV.

Type species: Spelerpes cephalicus Cope, 1869 .

Diagnosis: Salamanders of moderate to small size lacking any organized colour pattern; digits, especially fifth toe, relatively short and with moderate amounts of interdigital webbing.

Assigned taxa: We assign the following taxa to Aquiloeurycea : Aquiloeurycea cephalica (Cope, 1865) , new comb.; Aquiloeurycea cafetalera (Parra-Olea, Rovito, Márquez-Valdelamar, Cruz, Murrieta-Galindo & Wake, 2010), new comb.; Aquiloeurycea galeanae (Taylor, 1941) , new comb.; Aquiloeurycea quetzalanensis (Parra- Olea, Canseco-Márquez & García-París, 2004), new comb.; Aquiloeurycea scandens (Walker, 1955) , new comb. The enigmatic Aquiloeurycea praecellens (Rabb, 1955) , new comb. known only from the unique holotype, is provisionally assigned to this genus.

Etymology: From aquilo, L., referring to the northerly distribution of the genus relative to most other genera of bolitoglossines, and eurycea, possibly a reference to Greek mythology used by Rafinesque (1822) to refer to brook salamanders of the USA, and subsequently to the genus Pseudoeurycea .