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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Samwel Shasta Salamander
Hydromantes samweli Bingham, Papenfuss, Lindstrand, and Wake, 2018

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 New Species. Delimited from H. shastae by Bingham et al. (2018, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161: 403–427).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: California

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1964 Gorman, Joe. Hydromantes. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (10):1-2
1964 Gorman, Joe Hydromantes brunus, H. platycephalus, and H. shastae. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (11):1-2
1999 Nardi, Irma, Renata Batistoni, Silvia Marracci, and Benedetto Lanza. Repetitive DNA components of the large Hydromantes genome: Phylogenetic and molecular aspects. Herpetologica 55(2):131-139
2005 Wake, David B., Alfredo Salvador, and Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga. Taxonomy of the Plethodontid Salamander Genus Hydromantes (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 26(4):543-548
2018 Bingham, R. E., T. J. Papenfuss, L. Lindstrand, III, and D. B. Wake. Phylogeography and species boundaries in the Hydromantes shastae complex, with description of two new species (Amphibia; Caudata; Plethodontidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Massachusetts 161(10):403–427

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