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Cumberland Plateau Salamander
Plethodon kentucki 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:
Kentucky Salamander (Plethodon jordani kentucki: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Kentucky Salamander (Plethodon jordani kentucki: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185); Cumberland Plateau Woodland Salamander (Plethodon kentucki: 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:
1951 Mittleman, M. Budd. American Caudata. VII. Two new salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Herpetologica 7():105–112
2016 Kuchta, Shawn, Ashley D. Brown, Paul E. Converse, and Richard Highton. Multilocus phylogeography and species delimitation in the Cumberland Plateau Salamander, Plethodon kentucki: Incongruence among data sets and methods. PLoS ONE 11(3):1-25

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