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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Sacramento Mountains Salamander
Aneides hardii (Taylor, 1941)
AH-nee-des — HAR-dee-eye

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:
United States: New Mexico

Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for its discoverer.
Aneides — Greek an- = “not” + eidos = “form” or “shape” — possibly referring to morphological differences from other genera.
hardii — Patronym honoring Dilbert E. Hardy (1914–2002), a renowned American evolutionary entomologist who first collected the species.

First instance(s) of published English names:
Sacramento Mountains Salamander (Aneides hardyi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Sacramento Mountain Salamander (Aneides hardyi: 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:
1941 Taylor, Edward H. A new plethodont salamander from New Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 54(77–79):
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
1959 Johnson, R. F. and G. A. Schad. Natural history of the salamander, Aneides hardii. University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History 10:573-585
1965 Wake, David B. Aneides hardii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (17):1-2
1974 Wake, David B. Aneides. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (157):1-2
1980 Pope, Mary H. and Richard Highton. Geographic genetic variation in the Sacramento Mountain Salamander, Aneides hardii. Journal of Herpetology 14(4):343-326
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2019 Scarpetta, Simon G. Aneides hardii Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (921):1-23

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