Plethodon nettingi

Taxonavigation edit

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

Plethodon nettingi Green, 1938

Type locality: "above 4,000 feet on Barton Knob, near Cheat Bridge, [Randolph County,] West Virginia", USA.

Holotype: CM 10279.

Green, N.B. 1938. A new salamander, Plethodon nettingi, from West Virginia. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 27: 295–299.
Thurow, G.R. 1968. On the small black Plethodon problem. Series in the Biological Sciences. Western Illinois University 6: 6–48. Reference page.
Kroschel, Whitney A.; William B. Sutton; Christopher J.W. McClure; Thomas K. Pauley 2014. Decline of the Cheat Mountain Salamander over a 32-Year Period and the Potential Influence of Competition from a Sympatric Species. Journal of herpetology 48(3): 415–422. DOI: 10.1670/13-002

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 nettingi
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Plethodon nettingi. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Plethodon nettingi (Near Threatened) Downloaded on 4 August 2008.

English: Cheat Mountain Salamander