Thorius

Minute Salamanders (Thorius)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Caudata
Family:	Plethodontidae
Subfamily:	Bolitoglossinae
Genus:	Thorius Cope, 1869
Species
See table.

Thorius also known as Minute Salamanders is a genus of salamanders in the Plethodontidae family distributed from Western and Southern North America south to Brazil. The members of this genus are characterized by a small body - some species are less than 2 cm (0.8 in.) in length.

Species

This genus is composed of the following 23 species:

Binomial Name and Author	Common Name
Thorius arboreus Hanken & Wake, 1994	Arboreal Minute Salamander
Thorius aureus Hanken & Wake, 1994	Golden Minute Salamander
Thorius boreas Hanken & Wake, 1994	Northern Minute Salamander
Thorius dubitus Taylor, 1941	Acultzingo Minute Salamander
Thorius grandis Hanken, Wake & Freeman, 1999	Grand Minute Salamander
Thorius infernalis Hanken, Wake & Freeman, 1999	Atoyac Minute Salamander
Thorius insperatus Hanken & Wake, 1994	Vista Hermosa Minute Salamander
Thorius lunaris Hanken & Wake, 1998	Orizaba Minute Salamander
Thorius macdougalli Taylor, 1949	MacDougall's Minute Salamanders
Thorius magnipes Hanken & Wake, 1998	Big-footed Minute Salamander
Thorius minutissimus Taylor, 1949	Oaxacan Minute Salamander
Thorius minydemus Hanken & Wake, 1998	La Hoya Minute Salamander
Thorius munificus Hanken & Wake, 1998	McDiarmid Minute Salamander
Thorius narismagnus Shannon & Werler, 1955	San Martin Minute Salamander
Thorius narisovalis Taylor, 1940	Upper Cerro Minute Salamander
Thorius omiltemi Hanken, Wake & Freeman, 1999	Omiltemi Minute Salamander
Thorius papaloae Hanken & Wake, 2001	Papalo Minute Salamander
Thorius pennatulus Cope, 1869	Veracruz Minute Salamander
Thorius pulmonaris Taylor, 1940	Lower Cerro Minute Salamander
Thorius schmidti Gehlbach, 1959	Schmidt's Minute Salamander
Thorius smithi Hanken & Wake, 1994	Smith's Minute Salamander
Thorius spilogaster Hanken & Wake, 1998	Spotted Minute Salamander
Thorius troglodytes Taylor, 1941	Taylor's Minute Salamander

External links

• Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Thorius. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: July 31, 2008).
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Thorius. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: July 31, 2008).