A new species of arboreal salamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Pseudoeurycea) from the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico

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  • G. PARRA-OLEA
  • M. GARCÍA-PARÍS
  • D. B. WAKE
  • José Gutiérrez
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{Instituto de Biologı́a, UNAM, AP 70-153, CP 04510, Ciudad Universitaria, México D.F.; e-mail: [email protected] {Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain; e-mail: [email protected] §Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; e-mail: [email protected] }Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3160, USA; e-mail: [email protected]

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تاریخ انتشار 2003