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Ringed Salamander
Ambystoma annulatum Cope, 1886

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas Missouri Oklahoma

First instance(s) of published English names:
Ringed Salamander (Ambystoma annulatum: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1886 Cope, Edward D. Synonymic list of the North American species of Bufo and Rana, with descriptions of some new species of Batrachia, from specimens in the National Museum. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23(124):514-526
1950 Smith, Philip W. A third locality for the ringed salamander, Ambystoma annulatum. Copeia 1950(3):228
1951 Firschein, I. Lester. The ringed salamander, Ambystoma annulatum, in Oklahoma. Copeia 1951(1):82
1958 Tihen, Joseph A. Comments on the osteology and phylogeny of ambystomatid salamanders. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3(1):1-50
1965 Anderson, James D. Ambystoma annulatum. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (19):1-2
1969 Tihen, Joseph A. Ambystoma. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (75):1-4
2000 Phillips, Christopher A., Gloria Suau, and Alan R. Templeton. Effects of Holocene climate fluctuation on mitochondrial DNA variation in the Ringed Salamander, Ambystoma annulatum. Copeia 2000(2):542-545

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