CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIA OF MEXICO 15 



TARICHA KLAUBERI Wolteretorff 



Taricha torosa klauheri Wolterstorfp, Blatt. Aquar. Terrarienk., vol. 46, 1935 



pp. 17(>-184, figs, a, b. 

 Triturus torosus klauheri Stejneger and Barbour, Checklist of North American 



amphibians and reptiles, ed. 5, 1943, p. 7. 

 Triturus klauheri Bishop, Handbook of salamanders, 1943, pp. 80-82, fig. 20, 



map 6. 



Type. — Magdeburg Miis.? 



Type locality. — Boulder Creek, San Diego County, Calif. 



Range. — Extreme southwestern California and northwestern Baja 

 California. Kecorded from San Andreas and Keller, in Baja Califor- 

 nia. 



Genus DIEMICTYLUS Rafinesque 



Diemictylus Rafinesque, Ann. Nature, No. 22, 1820, p. 5. 



Genotype. — Diemictylus viridescens Rafinesque. 



Range. — The Gasp6 Peninsula of Ontario westward to Minnesota 

 and southward through Florida and the Atlantic Coast of Mexico to 

 southeastern San Luis Potosi. 



Species. — Six forms are recognized, three of which are subspecies of 

 D. viridescens; two occur in Mexico. 



KEY TO MEXICAN SPECIES OF DIEMICTYLUS 



1. Olive above and yellow below; all surfaces with relatively large, round, 



black spots meridionalis (p. 15) 



Above gray-brown with small black dots and numerous citron-yellow 

 spots kallerti (p. 15) 



DIEMICTYLUS MERIDIONALIS Cope 



Diemictylus miniatus meridionalis Cope, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 17, 1880, p. 30. 



Triturus meridionalis Dunn, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, 1918, p. 452. — 



Bishop, Handbook of salamanders, 1943, pp. 82-86, frontis., fig. 21, map 5. 



Type.— U.S.N. M. {fide Cope, loc. cit.).'' 



Type locality. — Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and "tributaries of the 

 Medina River and southward." Type locality here restricted to 

 Matamoros, Tamaulipas. 



Range. — Southern Texas, in the United States; northeastern Ta- 

 maulipas in Mexico. Recorded from Matamoros in Tamaulipas. 



DIEMICTYLUS KALLERTI Wolterstorff 



Diemydylus kallerti Wolterstorfp, Abh. Ber. Mus. Magdeburg, vol. 6, 1930, 



pp. 147-149, pi. 3, fig. 1, and text figs. 12, 13. 

 T(riturus) kallerti Smith, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 15, 1934, p. 407. 



>' "The first specimen of this form which I met with was sent to the Smithsonian Institution from Mata- 

 moras, Mexico." Cope (U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 34, 1889, p. 213) cites two specimens, uncataloged, from 

 Matamoros, and three from "San Diego." None are cited from the "tributaries of the Medina River." 

 We herewith restrict the type locality to Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Dr. Doris Cochran reports (January 

 1947) that the type or types cannot now be found in the U. S. National Museum, 



