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White-Spotted Slimy Salamander
Plethodon cylindraceus (Harlan, 1825)

Current SSAR Comments:
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Cylindrical Salamander (Salamandra cylindracea: Gray, John E. 1830. A synopsis of the species of the class reptilia. Pages 1-110 in The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, member of teh Institute of France, with Additional Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Named, and of many not before noticed. Ninth Volume. Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, London, England. pp.); 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); White-spotted Slimy Salamander (Plethodon cylindraceus: 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
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1825 Harlan, Richard. Description of a variety of the Coluber fulvius, Linn., a new species of Scincus, and two new species of Salamandra. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5():154-158

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