Plethodon teyahalee

Plethodon teyahalee

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 teyahalee

Name

Plethodon teyahalee Hairston, 1950

• Holotype: UMMZ 100807, adult ♂, collected by N.G. Hairston on 23 August 1949.
• Type locality: “from an elevation of 4525 ft. on Teyahalee Bald (= Johanna Bald) in the Snowbird Mountains on the boundary between Graham and Cherokee counties, North Carolina”, United States.

Combinations

• Plethodon jordani teyahalee Hairston, 1950: 269 [original combination, as subspecies]
• Plethodon teyahalee — Highton, 1984: 7 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Synonyms

• Plethodon oconaluftee Hairston, 1993: 67
  • Holotype: GSMNP 33339, adult ♀, collected by N.G. Hairston on 16 May 1991.
  • Type locality: “Pisgah National Forest, beside Forest Service Road 140 near the North Fork of the French Broad River at an elevation of 930 m on the south-facing slope of the Balsam Mountains, Translyvania County, North Carolina”, United States.

References

Primary references

• Hairston, N.G. 1950. Intergradation in Appalachian Salamanders of the Genus Plethodon. Copeia 1950(4): 262–273. DOI: 10.2307/1437904 Reference page. 
• Hairston, Sr., N.G. 1993. On the Validity of the Name teyahalee as Applied to a Member of the Plethodon glutinosus Complex (Caudata: Plethodontidae): A New Name. Brimleyana 18: 65–69. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Highton, R., Hastings, A.P., Palmer, C., Watts, R., Hass, C.A., Culver, M. & Arnold, S.J. 2012. Concurrent speciation in the eastern woodland salamanders (genus Plethodon): DNA sequences of the complete albumin nuclear and partial mitochondrial 12s genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(2): 278–290. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.018 Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2022. IUCN: Plethodon teyahalee  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T59356A196341465. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T59356A196341465.en. Accessed on 29 September 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Southern Appalachian Salamander

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