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A new salamander species of the genus Bolitoglossa is here described from the cloud forests of the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia.
These ‘mushroom-tongued’ or ‘tropical lungless’ salamanders, as they are commonly known, are characterized by lacking a sublingual fold; having a very long and rapidly projected tongue; a tendency towards tarsal reductions; extensive webbing associated with climbing behavior; and fully terrestrial to arboreal habits (Wake and Lynch 1976; Köhler 2011; Angarita-Sierra et al. 2020; Ponssa et al. 2022).These salamanders inhabit a variety of ecosystems, from lowland rainforests to highland areas, where they are particularly diverse in montane cloud forests and less so in paramo ecosystems (Köhler 2011).
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