THE CENTER FOR NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGY

Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Red Hills Salamander
Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton, 1961

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.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.01.22.13.00.23)
Download GeoJSON polygon range file: - 0.13 MB

Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama

First instance(s) of published English names:
Red Hills Salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti: Brandon, Ronald A. 1966. Phaeognathus and P. hubrichti. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (26):1-2); Red Hills Salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti: Conant, Roger. 1975. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston. pp.); Red Hills Salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti: Jordan, R., Jr. and R. H. Mount. 1975. The status of the red hills salamander, Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton. Journal of Herpetology 9(2):211-215);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1961 Highton, Richard. A new genus of lungless salamander from the coastal plain of Alabama. Copeia 1961(1):65-68
1963 Valentine, B. D. The plethodontid salamander Phaeognathus: External morphology and zoogeography.' Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76:153-158
1965 Brandon, Ronald A. Morphological variation and ecology of the salamander Phaeognathus hubrichti. Copeia 1965(1):67-71
1966 Brandon, Ronald A. Phaeognathus and P. hubrichti. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (26):1-2
1975 Jordan, R., Jr. and R. H. Mount. The status of the red hills salamander, Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton. Journal of Herpetology 9(2):211-215
1990 Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr. Line transect estimation of Red Hills salamander burrow density using a Fourier series. Copeia 1990:555-557
2004 Bakkegard, Kristin A. and Craig Guyer. Sexual size dimorphism in the Red Hills Salamander, Phaeognathus hubrichti (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Desmognathinae). Journal of Herpetology 38(1):8-15

THE CENTER FOR NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGY — Accessed: Monday 21 April 2025 13:28 CT