CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIA OF MEXICO 5 



Genus GYMNOPIS Peters 



Gymnopis Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874, p. 616, — Dunn, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 91, 1942, pp. 461-479 (part). 



Genotype. — Gymnopis multiplicata Peters (by monotypy). 



Range. —GuerreTO, Mexico, and Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, to Brazil. 



Species.— Kight forms are known, of which three are races of 

 G. multiplicata. Two {G. pricei, G. braziliensis) have been described 

 by Dunn since the appearance of his monograph in 1942. Only one 

 form enters Mexico. 



GYMNOPIS MULTIPUCATA OAXACAE Mertens 



Gymnopis multiplicata oaxacae Mertens, Abh. Ber. Mus. Magdeburg, vol. 6, 

 1930, pp. 153-155, fig. 14.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 

 (1939), pp. 299-300.— Dunn, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 91, 1942, pp. 

 466-469.— Taylor and Smith, Proc. U, S. Nat. Mus., vol. 95, 1945, pp. 

 523-524. 



Type. — Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, No. 22120. 



Type locality.- — Cafetal Concordia, 600 meters, between Puerto 

 Angel and Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Range. — Pacific slopes from central Guerrero to southern Chiapas. 

 Specimens are known from Guerrero: El Limoncito (near La Venta), 

 Xaltianguis; Oaxaca: Cafetal Concordia, Mirador; Chiapas: Tonald, 

 La Esperanza (near Escuintla). 



Order CAUDATA Oppel 



Caudata Oppel, Ordnung, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien , . ., 181 1, p. 72. 



KEY TO MEXICAN SUBORDERS OF CAUDATA 



1. No teeth in upper or lower jaw ''; body greatly elongated; hind limbs 



absent; permanent larvae, with gills throughout life Meantes (p. 5) 



Teeth in upper and/or lower javvs ^; fore and hind limbs present 2 



2. " Parasphenoid" teeth present 3 



"Parasphenoid" teeth absent Arabystomoidea (p. 6) 



3. No nasolabial groove Salamandroidea (p. 14) 



A nasolabial groove Plethodontoidea (p. 16) 



Suborder Meantes Linnaeus 



Meantes Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1766 (unpaged). 

 Family SIRENIDAE^Gray 



Sirenidae (part) Gray, Ann. ^Philos., ser. 2, vol. 10, 1825, p. 216; Catalogue of 

 the Batrachia Gradientia of the British Museum,|l850, p. 68. 



' Excluding palate. 



