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Southern Red-backed Salamander
Plethodon serratus 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:
Mud-puppy (Plethoden cinereus erythronotus: Coues, Elliott and Henry C. Yarrow. 1878. Notes on the natural history of Fort Macon, N. C. and Vicinity (No. 4). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 30():21-28); Red-backed Salamander (Plethoden cinereus erythronotus: Coues, Elliott and Henry C. Yarrow. 1878. Notes on the natural history of Fort Macon, N. C. and Vicinity (No. 4). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 30():21-28); Ouachita Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus serratus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Ouachita Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus serratus: 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);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
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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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