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Atlantic Coast Slimy Salamander
Plethodon chlorobryonis Mittleman, 1951

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

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Grey spotted Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus: Hallowell, Edward. 1858. On the caducibranchiate uurodele batrachians. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Series 2 3():337-366); 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.); Viscid Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus: Brimley, Clement S. 1896. Batrachia found at Raleigh, N. C. The American Naturalist 30():500-501); Carolina Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus chlorobryonis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Atlantic Coastal Slimy Salamander (Plethodon chlorobryonis: 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:
1951 Mittleman, M. Budd. American Caudata. VII. Two new salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Herpetologica 7():105–112

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