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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
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
NatureServe
iNaturalist
GenBank
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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