Gabriela Parra‐Olea, David B. Wake,
... feet, and extremely elongate tails. Batrachoseps from California, Lineatriton from eastern México, and Oedipina from southern México ... a widespread homoplasy (parallelism) in salamanders, the genus Lineatriton is unique in having evolved convergently by an alternate “giraffe-neck” developmental program. Lineatriton has the same number of trunk vertebrae as ... based on sequences of three mtDNA genes, finds Lineatriton to be deeply nested within a clade characterized by generalized ecology and morphology. Lineatriton lineolus , the only currently recognized taxon in the ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2001 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Edmund D. Brodie, Joseph R. Mendelson, Jonathan A. Campbell,
... two new species of salamanders of the genus Lineatriton, which occur as allopatric populations in the Sierra ... Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. The name Lineatriton lineolus (Cope) is restricted to populations in the ... allocated to L. lineolus, is here described as Lineatriton orchimelas. The population from the Sierra de Juarez ... is described as yet another new species of Lineatriton. These new species differ from L. lineolus in ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2002 - Herpetologists' League | Herpetologica
Radiographs of series of Thorius pulmonaris, Parvimolge townsendi, Lineatriton lineolus and various other plethodontids were made with ... easily detected. Most of the available specimens of Lineatriton and Parvimolge were not preserved in positions convenient ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
1961 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia
... species of Pseudoeurycea and samples from the monotypic Lineatriton, Ixalotriton, and Parvimolge. All phylogenetic analyses resulted in ... it is also part of the basal polytomy. Lineatriton, a highly specialized taxon, is deeply nested within ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2002 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Darrel R. Frost, Taran Grant, Julián Faivovich, Raoul H. Bain, Alexander Haas, Célio F. B. Haddad, Rafael O. de, Alan Channing, Mark Wilkinson, Stephen C. Donnellan, Christopher J. Raxworthy, Jonathan A. Campbell, Boris L. Blotto, Paul E. Moler, Robert C. Drewes, Ronald A. Nussbaum, John D. Lynch, David M. Green, Ward C. Wheeler,
... and the placement of Brachycephalus within “ Eleutherodactylus ”, and Lineatriton within “ Pseudoeurycea ”), and it is troubling that Wiens ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2007 - Wiley | Cladistics
Gabriela Parra‐Olea, Mario Garcı́a-Parı́s, James Hanken, David B. Wake,
... bellii, P. gadovii, P. juarezi and P. leprosa-Lineatriton species groups. One additional species, P. unguidentis, was ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2004 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Natural History