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culiyesterday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

He may have been referring to the very closely related Ambystoma velasci

The historic range of the axolotl was indeed a bit wider than the current lakes beneath Mexico City, but not that much wider


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prmoustacheyesterday at 10:51 PM

Yes there were more than one specy, somewhere between 15 and 20. I don't know tge names of them all and the one most emblematic of xochimilco may very well be limited to this area but that doesn't mean the other species do not count, especially if they were all called axolotl by the indigenous population.

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