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Striped Newt
Notophthalmus perstriatus (Bishop, 1941)

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: Florida Georgia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Striped Newt (Diemictylus viridescens perstriatus: 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:
1941 Bishop, Sherman C. Notes on salamanders with descriptions of several new forms. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (451):1–21
1967 Mecham, John S. Notophthalamus perstriatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (38):1-2
1990 Reilly, Stephen M. Biochemical systematics and evolution of the eastern North American newts, genus Notophthalmus (Caudata: Salamandridae) Herpetologica 46(1):51-59
2001 Johnson, Steve A. Life history, ecology, and conservation genetics of the Striped Newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus). Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainsville. 156pp.

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