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Blue-spotted Salamander
Ambystoma laterale Hallowell, 1856

Current SSAR Comments:
See comment under A. jeffersonianum.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Lateral Salamander (Amblystoma jeffersonianum laterale: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Slender Salamaner (Amblystoma jeffersonianum platineum: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Jefferson's Salamander (Amblystoma jeffersonianum laterale: Davis, N. S., and Frank L. Rice. 1883. List of Batrachia and Reptilia of Illinois. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 1(3):25–32); Jefferson's Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Blue-spotted Salamander (Ambystoma laterale: 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); Tremblay's Salamander (Ambystoma tremblayi: Collins, Joseph T., James E. Huheey, James L. Knight, and Hobart M. Smith. 1978. Standard common and current scientific names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Circulars (7):36);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1856 Hallowell, Edward. Notes on the reptiles in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philad'a. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 8():221-238
1967 Uzzell, Thomas Ambystoma jeffersonianum. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (47):1-2
1967 Uzzell, Thomas Ambystoma laterale. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (48):1-2
1967 Uzzell, Thomas. Ambystoma platineum. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (49):1-2
1967 Uzzell, Thomas. Ambystoma tremblayi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (50):1-2
2019 Bogart, J. P. Unisexual salamanders of the genus Ambystoma. Herpetologica 75(4):259–267

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