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Mississippi Slimy Salamander
Plethodon mississippi Highton, 1989

Current SSAR Comments:
See note under P. grobmani.

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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: Rhoads, Samuel N. 1895. Contributions to the zoology of Tennessee. No. 1, Reptiles and amphibians. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 47():376-407); Mississippi Slimy Salamander (Plethodon mississippi: 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:
1989 Highton, Richard. 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.

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