title: Taxonomic revision of the moss salamanderNototritonbarbouri(Schmidt (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with description of two new species from the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras.
abstract: Moss salamanders (genus Nototriton) are represented in northern Central America by nine putative species: N. barbouri, N. brodiei, N. lignicola, N. limnospectator, N. mime, N. picucha, N. saslaya, N. stuarti, and N. tomamorum. I estimate the phylogenetic relationships for these species based on data from three mitochondrial gene fragments (16S, cytochrome b, and COI), and compare morphological variation among putative taxa. As evidenced here and in previous studies, the taxon N. barbouri is paraphyletic with respect to populations from the Cordillera Nombre de Dios in northern Honduras. I restrict this taxon to populations from the Sierra de Sulaco in central Yoro, Honduras, and describe two new species from the Cordillera Nombre de Dios.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705-1081, USA.. josiah.townsend@iup.edu.
authors.forename: Josiah H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Townsend
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D005260:Female; D006721:Honduras; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity; D014562:Caudata / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Reptilia, Nototriton nelsoni sp. nov., Nototriton oreadorum sp. nov., Bryotriton, Parque Nacional Pico Bonito, Reserva de Vida Silvestre Texíguat