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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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