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Western Slimy Salamander
Plethodon albagula Grobman, 1944

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

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Viscid Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus: Jordan, David Starr. 1876. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.); Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); White-throated Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus albagula: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Western Slimy Salamander (Plethodon albagula: Highton, Richard. 1989. Part I: Geographic Protein Variation. Pages 2-79 in Biochemical evolution in the Slimy Salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus complex in the Eastern United States. Illinois Biological Monograph 57, . pp.);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1944 Grobman, Arnold B. The distribution of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon in eastern United States and Canada. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 45(7):261-316

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