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Green Salamander
Aneides aeneus (Cope and Packard, 1881)

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 Georgia Indiana Kentucky Maryland Mississippi North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Web-footed Salamander (Plethodon aeneus: Rhoads, Samuel N. 1895. Contributions to the zoology of Tennessee. No. 1, Reptiles and amphibians. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 47():376-407); Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus: 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:
1881 Cope, Edward D. and A. S. Packard. The fauna of the Nickajack Cave. American Naturalist 15:877–882
1941 Walker, Charles F. and Woodrow Goodpaster. The Green Salamander, Aneides aeneus, in Ohio . Copeia 1941(3):178
1950 Lowe, Charles H., Jr. The systematic status of the salamander Plethodon hardii, with a discussion of biogeographical problems in Aneides. Copeia 1950:92-99
1961 Williams, Kenneth L. and Robert E. Gordon. Natural dispersal of the salamander Aneides aeneus. Copeia 1961(3):353
1967 Gordon, Robert E. Aneides aeneus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (30):1-2
1968 Harris, Herbert S. Jr., and Daniel J. Lyons. The first record of the Green Salamander Aneides aeneus (Cope and Packard) in Maryland. Journal of Herpetology 1(1-4):106-107
1974 Wake, David B. Aneides. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (157):1-2
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389

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