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Check List 3(4): 353-354, 2007. ISSN: 1809-127X  NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION    353Amphibia, Caudata, Plethodontidae, Bolitoglossa medemi: Distribution extension.  Jonh Jairo Mueses-Cisneros 1 Viviana Moreno Quintero 2 Belisario Cepeda Quilindo 3  1 Laboratorio de Anfibios, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Apartado 7495, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. E-mail: jjmueses@gmail.com  2 Grupo de Estudios en Manejo de Vida Silvestre y Conservación GEMAVIC. Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia.   3 Grupo de Herpetología, Universidad de Nariño, Pasto, Nariño, Colombia.  On July 2006, a herpetological survey at Reserva Natural Biotopo Selva Húmeda, in the southwestern Colombia, was carried out. The Biotopo Reserve is located exactly in Colombia, department of Nariño, municipality of Barbacoas, corregimiento El Diviso, Vereda Berlín, between kilometers 92-105 from Tumaco-Pasto highway, connecting Veredas La María at Berlin to El Pailón (01º24'40" N, 78º17'06" W; 600 m) (Figure 1).   In the course of fieldwork, we found 25 species of amphibians and 34 species of reptiles. For two of those species, the present record extended previously known range of geographical distribution. We report herein the extension of the range of geographical distribution for Bolitoglossa medemi Brame & Wake, 1972 based in two adult females (PSO-CZ 450–51) and one adult male (PSO-CZ 452) collected respectively by Jonh Jairo Mueses-Cisneros and Ernesto Pérez on 13 July 2006 (field number JJM 750–51), and Luisa Mercedes Bravo on 18 July 2006 (JJM 959). The individuals were captured during the night, sitting under leaves between 0.7-2.5 m above the ground. As supplementary comment, Bolitoglossa biseriata Tanner, 1962 and Oedipina parvipes (Peters, 1879) were also collected in the area. The specimens are housed at the amphibian collection of the Museo de Historia Natural of the Universidad de Nariño (PSO-CZ), Pasto, Colombia.   Figure 1. Geographical distribution of Bolitoglossa medemi in Colombia. Check List 3(4): 353-354, 2007. ISSN: 1809-127X  NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION    354 The specimens examined agree with the diagnosis and original description provided by Brame and Wake (1972). According to them, Bolitoglossa medemi is diagnosed by having a moderately small size (snout vent-length 34.3 and 36.5 mm in females PSO-CZ 450–51 and 35.8 mm in male PSO-CZ 452); relatively short tail (46.3, 43.4 and 39.0 mm respectively); moderate numbers of maxillary and vomerine teeth; webbing of hands and feet nearly complete; snout truncated dorsally, lengthened in lateral profile; eyes large, slightly protuberant; no subterminal pads; and distinctive pattern of coloration (in life dorsum brown with irregular clear brown stains; ventral surfaces brown with numerous widely scattered irregular white or light yellow stains and points; iris coppery).  Bolitoglossa medemi was previously known from Panama, provinces of Darién and Nusagandi (Brame and Wake 1972; Parra-Olea et al. 2004), and Colombia, departments of Antioquia and Chocó (Acosta-Galvis 2000; Brame and Wake 1972; Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga 2004; Rivera-Correa and Gutiérrez-C. 2006), between 10 to 800 m of elevation (Brame and Wake 1972; Rivera-Correa and Gutiérrez-C. 2006). Recently Rivera-Correa and Gutiérrez-C. (2006) reported the southernmost record for B. medemi at Coquí River (05º35'31" N, 77º21'13" W), municipality of Nuquí, department of Chocó, Colombia. The locality herein reported is the southernmost record for the species, extending its range ca. 450 km southwestern from Coquí River, municipality of Nuquí.  Acknowledgements Without the help and enthusiasm that Marvin Anganoy, Mileidy Betancourt, Luisa Mercedes Bravo, Diana Lorena Mora, Carol Sofia Narváez, and Ernesto Pérez, gave to this project, we would have been unable to execute it. Andrés Acosta and J. D. Lynch confirmed the specimen determination. Abelardo Regalado and the Fundación Biotopo Selva Húmeda allowed us to carry out the study in the reserve. Logistic support was given by Bienvenido Cortéz, Olga Castillo, Jhon Ezequiel Angulo, and Carlos Albeiro Arévalo. CI-Colombia provided financial support (Becas para la Iniciativa de Especies Amenazadas IEA, convenio 259). Corponariño granted the collection permit (Resolution 356 on 13 June 2007). We thank Paulo Passos, Juan Manuel Guayasamín, Diego Francisco Cisneros-Heredia and David Wake for their comments on the manuscript.      Literature cited Acosta-Galvis, A. R. 2000. Ranas, Salamandras y Caecilias (Tetrapoda: Amphibia) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 1(3): 289-319. Brame, A. H. and D. B. Wake. 1972. New species of salamanders (genus Bolitoglossa) from Colombia, Ecuador and Panama. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County-Contributions in Science 219: 1-34. Lynch, J. D. and A. Suárez-Mayorga. 2004. Anfibios en el Chocó biogeográfico/ Catálogo de anfibios  en el Chocó biogeográfico; p. 633-667, In: J. O. Rangel Ch. (ed.), Colombia Diversidad Biótica IV/ El Chocó Biogeográfico/ Costa Pacífica. Bogotá, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia & Conservación Internacional.       Parra-Olea, G., M. Garcia-Paris, and D. B. Wake. 2004. Molecular diversification of salamanders of the tropical American genus Bolitoglossa (Caudata: Plethodontidae) and its evolutionary and biogeographical implications. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 81: 325-346. Rivera-Correa, M. and P. D. Gutiérrez-C. 2006. Amphibia, Caudata, Plethodontidae, Bolitoglossa medemi: distribution extension. Check List 2(3): 77-78.   Received February 2007 Accepted December 2007 Published online December 2007 

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