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Amphibia    Caudata    Ambystomatidae  
Mabee's Salamander
Ambystoma mabeei Bishop, 1928
AM-bis-TOH-mah — MAY-bee-eye
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Occurrences:; 312 Total; 235 Museum; 77 Other

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Province/State Distribution:
United States: North Carolina South Carolina Virginia

Taxonomic Etymology:
Named in honor of a donor and amateur naturalist.
Ambystoma — Greek amblys = "blunt" + stoma = "mouth"
mabeei — Patronym honoring William B. Mabee (1897–?), an entomologist affiliated with North Carolina State College in the 1920s; Latinized possessive form.

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


Selected References:
1928 Bishop, Sherman C. Notes on some amphibians and reptiles from the southeastern states with a description of a new salamander from North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 43:153–170
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
1969 Tihen, Joseph A. Ambystoma. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (75):1-4
1970 Hardy, Jerry D., Jr., and Anderson, James D. Ambystoma mabeei.. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (81):1-2
1974 Hardy, Jerry D., Jr., and J. Olmon. Restriction of the range of the frosted salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum based on a comparison of the larvae of Ambystoma cingulatum and Ambystoma mabeei. Herpetologica 30:156-160

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