Plethodon hubrichti

Plethodon hubrichti

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Plethodontidae
Subfamilia: Plethodontinae
Genus: Plethodon
Species: Plethodon hubrichti

Name

Plethodon hubrichti Thurow, 1957

Type locality: "by the Blue Ridge Parkway at about 3100 feet, 0.9 miles south of cement milepost 80 and a sign reading 'view of Black Rock Hill' in Bedford County near the Bedford-Botecourt line and roughly 10 miles ESE of Buchanan, Virginia", USA.

Holotype: USNM 139087.

Synonyms

Plethodon hubrichti Thurow, 1957: 59
Plethodon richmondi hubrichti — Conant, 1958
Plethodon nettingi hubrichti — Thurow, 1968
Plethodon hubrichti — Highton & Larson, 1979

References

Primary references

Thurow, G.R. 1957. A new Plethodon from Virginia. Herpetologica 13(1): 59–66. JSTOR Reference page.
Thurow, G.R. 1968. On the small black Plethodon problem. Series in the Biological Sciences. Western Illinois University 6: 6–48. Reference page.
Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 587.

Links

Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Plethodon hubrichti
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Plethodon hubrichti. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Plethodon hubrichti (Vulnerable) Downloaded on 4 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Peaks of Otter Salamander

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