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Red Hills Salamander
Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton, 1961

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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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

Pertinent LIterature:
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
1966 Brandon, Ronald A. Phaeognathus and P. hubrichti. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (26):1-2

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