Pseudoeurycea belli

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I have seen Pseudoeurycea belli in books and think they are drop dead gorgeous. Are they ever available?
 
I don't think any of the Pseudoeurycea are ever available in the US. They are beautiful though.
 
Interesting species. I have been to the type locality, Rio Frio de Juarez, Puebla, Mexico many times ( the TL for this species is well published, so I believe it is OK to mention it here). Very high mountain meadow and pine woods, 3000m. This area is often shrouded in clouds and very moist. Beautifull countryside.
 
Kurt said:
Yes they are beautiful. What is TL?
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In simple terms.

TL= Type Locality

Type Locality= geographic point/locality from which the Type specimen/s used to describe a species originated from.

Type specimen (usually the holotype)= an individual organism from which a species was described (named or create a taxon)

From there it gets rather complicated as you have holotypes, allotypes, paratypes, lectoypes, syntypes, neotypes, topotypes and several others :eek:
 
Thanks for the definitions, Steve. I moved a copy of your post to the Glossary Project part of the forum.
 
TL = Total Length. I've never seen anyone abbreviate Type Locality to TL before this thread.
 
John said:
TL = Total Length. I've never seen anyone abbreviate Type Locality to TL before this thread.
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I'd have to agree with John on this one. TL goes along with SVL/SUL = snout-vent length/snout-urostyle length (in frogs).

Tim
 
John said:
TL = Total Length. I've never seen anyone abbreviate Type Locality to TL before this thread.
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Well, perhaps you haven't, however, here are some examples to help you out.


http://www.tils-ttr.org/ttr/ttr-2-3.pdf page 4

http://www.bio-nica.info/Biblioteca/Brou2006NoctuidaeEudocima.pdf page 1

http://research.yale.edu/peabody/jls/pdfs/1960s/1967/1967-21(3)181-Clench.pdf page 184

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lengenbach_Quarry

http://wcv.nhm-wien.ac.at/coleoptera/publications/kr2004/0411.pdf page 8

Or here, if you like formal definitions:
http://www.cactus-art.biz/note-book/Dictionary/Dictionary_T/dictionary_type_locality.htm

I can cite you some books too, such as, A Field Guide to the Butterflies, Alexander B Klotz,

or a more modern text, A Field Guide to the Western Butterflies, J.W. Tilden & Arthur C. Smith,

If you need more let me know.

BTH (By The Way) TL can also mean Total Length, among other things. ;)
 
Steve, I haven't looked at all of your examples but a quick glance tells me that none of those refer to salamanders. In salamander circles and peer reviewed publications TL means only one thing.
 
John said:
Steve, I haven't looked at all of your examples but a quick glance tells me that none of those refer to salamanders. In salamander circles and peer reviewed publications TL means only one thing.
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Yeah and one comes from Yale! Boo! Harvard all the way!
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