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Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander
Ambystoma bishopi Goin, 1950

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Florida Georgia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Reticulated Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum bishopi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185); Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum bishopi: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1950 Goin, Coleman J. A study of the salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum, with the description of a new subspecies. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh. 31:299–321
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 Martof, Bernard S. and H. Carl Gerhardt. Observations on the geographic variation in Ambystoma cingulatum. Copeia 1965(3):342-346
1968 Martof, Bernard S. Ambystoma cingulatum. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (57):1-2
1969 Tihen, Joseph A. Ambystoma. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (75):1-4
2022 Palis, John G., Gorman, Thomas A., and Pauly, Gregory B. Ambystoma bishopi Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (929):1-21

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