Townsend Josiah H, Medina-flores Melissa, Reyes-Calderón Onán, Austin James D
Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705-1081, USA.
Zootaxa. 2013;3666:358-68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.3.6.
The highlands of northeastern Honduras remain under-characterized in terms of biological diversity, as exemplified by the regularity of new amphibian and reptile taxa discoveries. Following the recent description of a new species of Nototriton from the Sierra de Agalta in northeastern Honduras, we report the discovery of a second new species of Nototriton from the nearby Parque Nacional Montaña de Botaderos. This new taxon, Nototriton mime sp. nov., is distinguished from other Nototriton by its distinctive pale brown dorsal coloration in adult males, relatively large nares, a relatively broad head, mitochondrial sequence divergence, and phylogenetic relationships, and is geographically isolated from other populations of Nototriton.
洪都拉斯东北部的高地在生物多样性方面仍未得到充分描述，新两栖类和爬行类分类群的发现频率便是例证。继最近在洪都拉斯东北部的阿加尔塔山脉描述了一种新的诺托螈属物种之后，我们报告在附近的博塔德罗斯山国家公园发现了第二种新的诺托螈属物种。这个新分类群，即诺托螈米姆新种，成年雄性具有独特的浅棕色背部颜色、相对较大的鼻孔、相对宽阔的头部、线粒体序列差异和系统发育关系，与其他诺托螈属物种不同，并且在地理上与诺托螈属的其他种群隔离。
