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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Santa Cruz Black Salamander
Aneides niger Myers and Maslin, 1948

Current SSAR Comments:
Elevated from the synonymy of A. flavipunctatus by Reilly and Wake (2019, PeerJ 7: e7370).

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Black Salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus niger: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Santa Cruz Black Salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus niger: 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

Pertinent LIterature:
1948 Myers, George S. and T. Paul Maslin. The California plethodont salamander, Aneides flavipunctatus (Strauch), with description of a new subspecies and notes on other western Aneides. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 61():127–138
2019 Reilly, Sean B. and David B. Wake. Taxonomic revision of black salamanders of the Aneides flavipunctatus complex (Caudata: Plethodontidae). PeerJ 7(7370):1–36.

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